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            Raging water cannot extinguish love,
                and rivers will never wash it away.
    If a man exchanged all his family’s wealth for love,
    people would utterly despise him.

The Young Woman with Her Family and Her Beloved

[The brothers]

We have a little sister, and she has no breasts.
    What will we do for our sister on the day she becomes engaged?
If she is a wall, we will build a silver barrier around her.
    If she is a door, we will barricade her with cedar boards.

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