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Michael and Betty  

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Michael and Betty Once upon a time lived a relatively destitute wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Michael and the girl Betty. After much hesitation, the father declared, "I've had enough for this life of poverty and de-moralisation, our social compensation and government benefits aren't nearly enough to look after our children". "I'll tell you what, husband," answered the woman, "early tomorrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest. There we will light a fire for them, and give each of them one pasty and a can of coke each, and then we will go to our work and leave them alone. They will not find the way home again, and we shall be rid of them." "But what if they imitate the old fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, where they leave the trail of breadcrumbs...

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