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Situation puzzleThe parents disappeared

A little girl was crying bitterly in a barn. Through her tears, she noticed an old lamp lying in the garbage. She took it and dusted it off.

Suddenly a genie appeared and said:

"I’ll fulfill one of your wishes. But only one, so think it over."

"Please make my parents disappear!" the girl said through tears, "I hate them!"

"Consider it done," replied the genie. "Go to bed, and in the morning your wish will be fulfilled."

The next morning, the girl woke up and went down to the kitchen. She found her mom and dad sitting at the kitchen table having breakfast. The girl immediately regretted her wish. She rushed into the barn and began to rub the lamp.

The genie appeared and said, "Well, are you happy now?"

"Please cancel my yesterday’s wish," the girl pleaded.

"I'm sorry," the genie replied. "But once a wish is made, I can’t cancel it."

And the girl burst into bitter tears. Why?

The girl realized that she lived with foster parents, and her wish made her real parents, who lived somewhere else, disappear.

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