한국어

The Old Man at the Forest's Edge Sold What People Had Forgotten

An old man at the forest's edge sells forgotten things imbued with memories, but tells a visitor he has nothing to sell them.

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Each of those things held its own memory, and the old man sold them to customers who needed them.

I went to find the old man myself to buy something from him, but he told me he had nothing to sell me.

The old man smiled and said, "You haven't lost anything, so there's nothing for me to sell."

3 sentences Translated from Korean
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