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nce upon a time, there was a woman
                      who had two daughters. One of them,
                      named Caterina, was unbelievably beauty-
                      ful, while the other was so ugly that is
           hard to imagine how ugly she was. Well, the
           mother favoured the ugly daughter, and they
           were consumed with envy against Caterina,
           because not only was she beautiful, but she even
           showed herself to be deeply good. So her mother
           and her sister played tricks on her and did all they
           could to bring down some ailment on Caterina so
           as to make her ugly. The poor girl patiently bore
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