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The Untitled Opening Section

• In the opening untitled chapter, the story begins with a boy playing hide-and-seek with his friends 50 years before the war to end all wars.

• Otto slips away to the edge of the forest while his friend Mathilde is counting.

• He begins reading a book that he bought that morning from a Gypsy.

• The book is “The Thirteenth Harmonica of Otto Messenger.”

• In the first chapter of the book, a king’s kingdom will only be inherited by his child if he has a son.

• If the king has a daughter, his kingdom will revert to his brother.

• The king gives birth to three daughters.

• Each time a daughter is born, the king has the midwife take them to the woods and leave them for the animals.

• Instead the midwife takes each of the girls to the forest and leaves them with her cousin, who...

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