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KNOWING AESOP'S FABLES HELPED SAVE THIS PRISONER'S LIFE.(News)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 19970630
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Kassie Neou owes his life to Aesop and his fables, which he told over and over again, night after night, to the teenage boys who guarded him 20 years ago in a Khmer Rouge torture chamber.

``You're the tortoise! You're the hare!'' the boys teased each other, delighted with the story, Neou recalled last week.

Every night, sometimes exhausted and bloody from a day of beatings and interrogation, he said, he told the stories to one shift of guards after another.

``I was lucky because I knew those stories by heart,'' said Neou, who had been the head of the English-language ...

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