A mother tells her small daughter not to ride her bicycle around the corner. The girl demands to know why. The mother replies that then she cannot see her daughter and she will fall down and cry and the mother will not hear her. It is written in a book, The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, "all the bad things that can happen to a child outside the protection of her house." The daughter demands to know what the twenty-six things are. When the mother does not.....
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