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There once was a woman who stood all alone in the world, she had not one friend. She went into the temple to pray, "Please dear Lord," she begged. "Please send mesome bread, so that I might eat and survive during these cold winter months." As she walked out of the temple a priest stood by her and handed her some bread. As she walked home she came upon another woman, who was also going to the temple to ask for bread. Willingly she gave half of her bread the woman without asking, the woman then gave thanks and went into town where she sold the bread and went back home with money in her purse. In the following months that came the woman who had the bread ate and rejoiced in the Lord for giving her to eat. While the other woman stored the coins in a clay pot for the winter and went hungry, for fear of spending her money and not having anything. When the other woman's bread had run out she walked to the house of the woman whom she had given half of the bread, "Please come with me to the Temple, let us pray for bread and rejoice in the Lord."
But the other woman would not go and shut the door quickly afraid that the first woman would find out that she sold the bread she had so willing given her before. And so the second woman went hungry, fearing to spend her coins, while the first ate bread all winter.
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