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Pinocchio 3.3 · 3.3

“I’ll call him Pinocchio”

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— Che nome gli metterò?— disse fra sè e sè.— Lo voglio chiamar Pinocchio. Questo nome gli porterà fortuna. Ho conosciuto una famiglia intera di Pinocchi: Pinocchio il padre, Pinocchia la madre e Pinocchi i ragazzi, e tutti se la passavano bene. Il più ricco di loro chiedeva l' elemosina.

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Geppetto muses aloud on a name — one that once belonged to a whole family who did well, though the richest of them begged for alms.

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