A Modern Moral Fairy Tale
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And that would be the end of the story, except that
there was a curious old woman who lived in a tiny house at the western edge
of the village. The house had once been the shipping container which had brought
the furnishings and computers for the internet café, but the old woman
had carved windows in the sides of the box like grinning jack-o-lanterns (a
picture she’d found online and which had nothing whatsoever to do with
the history of the village—so it was somewhat controversial until the
others had gotten used to it), Every day, she would walk out to the rice paddies,
watching the old men and old women bend down first to plant, then to weed,
then to harvest.
