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Magic Words

In the very earliest time,when both people and animals lived on earth,a person could become an animal if heand an animal could become a human being.Sometimes they were peopleand sometimes animalsand there was no difference.All spoke the same language.That was the time when words were like magic.The human mind had mysterious powers.A word spoken by chancemight have strange consequences.It would suddenly come aliveand what people wanted to happen could happen–all you had to do was say it.Nobody could explain this:That’s the way it was.

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