Giving up sugar

A simple and, in my opinion, beautiful story

Terry Freedman

May 19, 2023

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a man with a white beard wearing a turban — Photo by Sonu Agvan on Unsplash

A mother took her young son to see an Indian holy man.

Mother: Please tell my son to stop eating sugar.

Holy man: Bring your son back in three days’ time.

Three days passes, and once again the mother has brought her son to see the holy man.

Holy man to son: Stop eating sugar.

Mother: Why couldn’t you have said that three days a…

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