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  I soon learned to know this flower better.

  On the little prince's planet the flowers had always been very simple. 

  They had only one ring of petals ; they took up no room at all ; they were a trouble to nobody.

  One morning they would appear in the grass, and by night they would have faded peacefully away.

  But one day from a seed blown from  no one knew where,a new flower had come up ; and the little prince had watched very closely over this small sprout which wasnot like any others small sprouts on his planet.

  It might you seem have been a new kind of baobab.

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