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Kacou Ananzè stands before the forbidden mirror in the Queen’s magnificent palace.

The Mirror of the Great Famine

There was once a terrible famine in the village, the kind of famine that made every day a struggle for survival. For three years, the rains had failed to arrive. The clouds that usually gathered in the sky had disappeared, and the sun seemed determined to burn whatever remained alive. The grasses stopped growing, the earth cracked open under the
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