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Saints and Poets
She shaves her head and puts on the robe before anyone has said yes, and starts walking.
Mahapajapati asked the Buddha three times and three times he said no.
Mahapajapati was the Buddha's aunt, and after his mother Maya died seven days from his birth, she was the one who raised him. She fed him and carried him and brought him up as her own, and then he left home and became what he became.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.