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THREE WISHES


And then he came to his last wish.
He thought of the first girl he'd loved,
long ago.

I wish, he said,
she could come back to me,
my first love, the girl I knew and loved
before.

The Genie,
looking down,
replied slowly in a state of
repose:

The other two,
your first and second wishes,
I cannot grant you those...

And so,
in the general scheme of things,
he was right, I suppose.

But the Genie could not fulfill it.
and felt some remorse.

So the third wish was granted,
and she appeared in due course.

And the two lovers were reunited
and were lonely no more

And as they walked into their cottage,
she asked what the other two were,

looking straight into his eyes
at the foot of the stair.

Those wishes were improbable
and don't fear that you've been misled...

I had to test his powers,
he quietly said.

And the other two? she answered,
with a slight hint of defeat.

He looked at her with affection,
and then gazed down the street...

They were for my mother and my father,
he turned to her and said...

But the Genie could not do it-
he could not bring back the dead...



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