1.08: A Short Story

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As the princess gestured to the right to show the man which door to choose, she was thinking about the lady that was in the door and about the tiger that was in the other. The princess didn’t like the lady in the door. she didn’t really want the man to go spend the rest of his life with her. So she did what she had to do.The door she told the man to choose was the one with the tiger.
Obviously, the man didn’t know that so he went to the door and put his hand on the cold round knob. As he twisted the knob slowly he felt like this was the wrong door. “Are you sure this is the right door?” yelled the man. Even though he knew that the princess would never lie to him especially in this situation.
So he twisted the knob more and more, until

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