Once upon a time in a distant planet a city made entirely of ice. It was built to be safe and to last forever. With houses, streets and monuments resisted the weather and came out more shiny and clean first. However this superb strength was also its biggest flaw: it prevented citizens any changes or improvements. All He constituted a single piece. Even the political organization resembled that Ice, it was so as not to allow garantista no activity. Even the mayor had to ask a thousand and then a thousand confirmations to carry out its daily tasks. Citizens, on the contrary, made the best of a bad game and apparently respected the rules. Actually they are pursuing their own interests secretly smuggling goods than before needs and exchanging things in secret value, because they were confident that get permits required would make them lose too much time. So in social life, for fear of being discovered, they were forced to pretend to each the others. One day a sincere citizen proposed to the mayor and other politicians to change the laws of city to allow its citizens to act at the light of the Sun. The mayor went on all rage and scattered the voice of the incident. All citizens denied the evidence and attributed the sincere citizens blame their misdeeds. For this the sincere citizen was sentenced exile. She had to leave her home and away from the city, beginning a path to unknown lands. After seven days of traveling, feeding on fruit found in his way, he came across a strange country made of bricks and timber. There, he was welcomed cordially and he decided to settle there. All the villagers were always polite, they helped each other to repair smashed roofs, fix the fences, paint the walls and so so on. In short, they were always busy, but They did everything with dedication. They passed quickly ten years and only then sincere, he had always kept the desire to return to his native home, he decided to groped in the enterprise. He retraced the road to the city and When he got there he found everything as she had left him with houses, streets and monuments of ice. The citizens They were the same, but did not recognize him. Sincere had learned to fend for himself and kept on his body the marks of the labors of work. It was not offended by being exiled, only had compassion for the citizens, as if they It can have for children unconscious. She decided to teach them what he had learned. He bought some land just outside the city and He began to build a brick and wooden house. At the end of its work all people went to see the new house and were stunned. It was a house warm, cozy and beautiful. As time passes, from one to the Grim, all citizens built their brick house and just outside the city wood. It is said that the heat of the new houses have dissolved the city of ice, growing a large wood and that citizens have also become more honest. Umberto F. M. Cefalà
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