Ruby Pond Research Paper

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Once upon a time there lived a tiny boy in The Ruby Pond at the king's place under a lily pad.

All the creatures that lived in the pond didn't know how he emerged from a flower.

He came into the world wearing a tiny emerald necklace, so all the birds, fishes and insects named him Bijou, which meant tiny

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