The Crossroad
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I heard this story for the first time when I was about 7 years old and I didn't think that much of it back then. Yet it stayed on my mind for all this time until now, where I find new meaning in it.
It's not my story and I'm retelling it the way it means the most to me and how I remember it.
I don't know who wrote it originally
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