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One day in a luscious land far away, 3 brave Mexican banditos were returning from their long and hard journey to taco bell and they were very disappointed with the “fake tacos” they had there. While they were on their way to their homes they stumbled upon a little tidy village and thought, “Hey, they must have some real tacos here” so they walked over to the village to see if they had any tacos, but the little stingy Nino’s and Nina’s did not want to share their tacos so they hid all their taco ingredients.
When the travelers arrived at the village the Niño’s and Nina’s said that they had nothing to give to them. But the travelers, being the kind banditos that they were shared what little they had with them. They went up to the villagers and said “it is not much but we will share with you a secret, we will teach you how to make tacos out of stones’
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The travelers looked at each other and smiled. The placed their bags onto the ground and instructed the people. “Go out and find 5 smooth rocks and bring them back to us”. All of the villagers eagerly run to go find the rocks. They bring the travelers back the rocks. “These will do nicely” they said “does anyone have any lettuce?’ one of the travelers asked while his eyes scanned the crowd. “I do” said one of the villagers, soon everybody was pitching in. Soon everybody was running to where they had hid their ingredients and bringing it back to make tacos. Soon everybody was dancing and singing at the feast they had created. But while this was going on, the 3 travelers had stolen all the tacos while everybody was distracted. It was the next morning before anybody noticed that all 500 tacos were gone. Many people wondered how 3 people could carry 500 tacos. But the moral of this story is. Never under estimate the will of 3 men. Who really. Really like

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