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There once lived a man who didn't know how to fish. He asked for help from the other men in the town and no one would do so, they told him to find out how to fish for himself. He was hurt by this response but rowed out on the water to try and learn to fish in the hope of bringing some fish home to feed his wife and their three children so they wouldn't starve to death. He caught nothing but he persisted day after day.

One day he caught a fish and when he pulled it in from the water and looked at it he realised, with some shock, that the fish looked almost exactly like him - it was like looking in the mirror. Because he felt an affinity with the fish that resembled him so closely he carefully took the hook from its mouth and gently put it back in the water watching it swim away into the depths.

He went home to tell his wife about the fish he'd caught and how he'd let it go because it looked just like him and she said...

Stay tuned for the next episode of The man who couldn't fish.