descendant of Midas
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The truth was that after Midas had gone to the river of Pactolus the curse didn't truly disappear as he had thought. A few years after everything returned to normal, an assassin came and killed his daughter, he escaped to the woods and never came back. His people thought that he had died, so they mourned for their king and appointed a new one.
no one knew that he was alive and had remarried, and no one knew the curse that had traveled through the veins of his children
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