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A Kingly Tale

Three kings came to see the king and asked him where the new king was born. 

But the first king told the three kings that he didn't know where the second king was. 

His advisers looked in the Bible — though not in First or Second Kings — and found that the second king was to be born in Bethlehem. 

So the first king told the three kings to find the second king and tell him, the first king, where the second king was because the first king thought the second king was one king too many. 

But when the three kings found the second king they realized he was actually the king of kings — and that compared with him the other king, indeed all other kings, were really no kings at all.



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