Once upon a time there was mother duck and a father duck who had seven baby ducklings. Six of them there regular-looking ducklings. The seventh was a really ugly duckling. Everyone used to say, “What a nice-looking bunch of ducklings – all except one. Boy, he’s really ugly.” The really ugly duckling heard these people, but didn’t care. He knew that one day he would probably grow up to be swan and be bigger and look better than anything in the bond. Well, as it turned out he was just a really ugly duckling. And he grew up to be just a really ugly duck. The End.
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