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The Five Boons of Life

By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
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Summary

A fairy offers a young man five gifts, fame, love, riches, pleasure, and death, but tells him, "Only one is valuable." As he passes through life, he uses four of the gifts, but each gift brings only disappointment, so, as an old man he requests the final gift.

Public Domain (P)2020 Mike Vendetti
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