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From: Natesh Muthanna @ Bangalore

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REAL SUSPENSE

>This is really a great suspense...!!!!!
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>Read it carefully to know what it is.
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>A man is driving down the road and breaks down near
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>a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the
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>door, and says, My car broke down.
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>Do you think I could stay the night?
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>the monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner,
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>even fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep,
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>he hears a strange sound. The next morning, he asks
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>the monks what the sound was, but they say, We
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>can't tell you. You're not a monk.
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>The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and
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>goes about his merry way. Some years later, the same
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>man breaks down in front of the same monastery. The
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>monks again accept him, feed him, even fix his car.
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>That night, he hears the same strange noise that he
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>had heard years earlier.
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>The next morning, he asks what it is, but the monks
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>reply, We can't tell you. You're not a monk.
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>The man says, All right, all right. I'm dying to
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>know. If the only way I can find out what that sound
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>was is to become a monk, how do I become a monk?
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>The monks reply, You must travel the earth and tell
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>us how many blades of grass there are and the exact
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>number of sand pebbles. When you find these numbers,
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>you will become a monk.
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>The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years
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>later, he returns and knocks on the door of the
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>monastery. He says, I have traveled the earth and
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>have found what you have asked for. There are
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>145,236,284,232 blades of grass and
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>231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth.
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>The monks reply, Congratulations. You are now a
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>monk. We shall now show you the way to the sound.
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>The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the
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>head monk says, The sound is right behind that
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>door.
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>The man reaches for the knob, but the door is
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>locked. He says, Real funny. May I have the key?
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>The monks give him the key, and he opens the door.
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>Behind the wooden door is another door made of
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>stone. The man demands the key to the stone door.
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>The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to
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>find a door made of ruby. He demands another key
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>from the monks, who provide it. Behind that door is
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>another door, this one made of sapphire.. So it went
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>until the man had gone through doors of emerald,
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>silver, topaz, and amethyst.
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>Finally, the monks say, This is the last key to the
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>last door.
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>The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door,
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>turns the knob, and behind that door he is amazed to
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>find the source of that strange sound.
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>. . . . But I can't tell you what it is because
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>you're not a monk.

From: Sanjay Kumar