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There was once a rose in an enchanting garden he lived in a lovely meadow of flowers, he was not a beautiful rose, it was not a velvety red rose, it was dull and dark but it did not have any thorns, all the flowers made fun of him and no bee ever came to it he lived alone all day long , praying that gardener plucks him and throws him away so that he can die in peace . Then one day came a bee who was from a far off place and reached the garden late , all the other bees had taken all the roses and plants and were joyously sucking there nectar.This bee saw the rose in the corner of the garden , she didn't know what to do as she needed nectar .She went to this ugly rose and said "May I take some nectar from you? , the rose was shocked no bee had ever spoken to him this way or as matter of fact no bee had ever even looked at him.He replied "Y...yess b..but I don't think my nectar will be of any use to you, I am just an ugly rose". She said to him"So what I am not the most beautiful bee in the meadow..." and she took his nectar.The rose had a lot of nectar in him and the bee came to him regularly for nectar.They became good friends and they talked a lot and slowly and slowly the rose started glowing again.It was a small glow but the gardener was happy to see the rose had finally started to bloom. Then one day the rose developed a thorn , it wasn't his fault and when the bee came it pricked her and she bled a little.The bee thought the rose had done this on purpose and she said to him "You are liar , you said you had no thorns and now you have a thorn that you had hidden to prick me so that I die..." The rose was shocked as he did not get what she meant by that and he wept in front of her and said "I am sorry its not my fault god made me this way if a rose doesn't have thorns how can it protect itself form the world." To this the bee got angry and said"You think I would harm you and that's why you grew that thorn on you , to warn me , I know roses like you , who deliberately act pitiful for innocent bees like us, we are not even friends you are just an acquaintances to me, I just happened to come to you as all the other roses were taken by other bees..." Saying this the bee flew away to another rose and the ugly rose wept and wept and he lost all his luster and sheen , he saw the bee everyday and he couldn't say anything to the bee .She had made a new rose her friend and she took his nectar. The ugly rose again started praying to the gardener to weed him off, but the gardener knew that one day the bee would come to him as he wasnt wrong he was only just being a rose.
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