MARY AND JOHN Once upon a time when marriages between relatives were allowed, there lived two siblings who loved each other so much; John and Mary. The two did everything together and were hardly apart . One day, they went to the river to bath. Mary told John to take off his clothes and bath. John was shy and so he also told his sister that he would only do so if she took off her clothes too. They agreed to take off their clothes at the same time and they did. Meanwhile, when John saw the beads around Mary ’ s waist , he asked her to marry him but she refused. However, John insisted on asking her to marry him . When they got back home, John told their parents that he wanted to build a house for himself and they allowed him. He built his house far from his parents’ house and he never returned home ever since. This got his parents worried. One afternoon, the mother cooked Nsima/Pap with beef and went to John's

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