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This folktale from Japan tells the story of a poor farmer who is ordered to abandon his aged mother on a mountain to die, according to a cruel new law. The farmer cannot bear to leave her, so he carries her up the mountain. His mother, out of love, drops handfuls of twigs along the path so he can find his way back down. The farmer refuses to leave her and they hide together. When another impossible demand is made, the mother

Author

Justine Cruz

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