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We'll begin this talk with a story from a far away time in place.

An old king and queen had a son, young prince, who was very headstrong and self-centered, impatient,

and although a bright guy, not particularly interested in caring about other people, they

were concerned because they were elderly and they wanted to make sure the kingdom would

be in good hands. So they called on a sorcerer who they trusted a lot and he asked the

single question, he said, what is your son most passionate about? Is there anything

and the response was horses. He's passionate about horses. So he said meet me in the palace

gardens tomorrow morning and we'll see what happens. So they brought they in the prince

met with the sorcerer and the palace gardens next morning and the this sorcerer had this

incredibly beautiful white horse there and the prince immediately said, I want it, how

much for it, can I ride it and so on. So he agreed but he said first we have to see if

you can ride it. So the prince jumped on and he galloped off and he started galloping

through different farmlands and hills and he was really into it, going faster and faster,

up some mountains over a mountain pass into some woodlands, having a wonderful time but

then gradually he started getting tired enough so he slowed down and he was in the middle

of a deep forest at that point. He stopped at a small cottage to find out a bit where he

was and so on, turned out that in the cottage lived a woodcutter and his beautiful daughter,

as you might imagine, there's always a beautiful young woman. And they had no idea where

the neither of them had heard of the kingdom but they offered him to stay over the night

and then he could go searching the next day. So he stayed over and he went out searching

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