In this tale by Nobel Prize winning author Rabindranath Tagore a seven-year-old boy is told a story by his grandmother in which a king decides his daughter should marry the next person he sees. That turns out to be a young boy so she looks after him and prepares him to be her husband. (1,820 words)
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