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The text is a transcript of a Vietnamese fairy tale about a girl named Tam who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister Cam. Tam's mother dies and becomes a fish that helps Tam with her chores. Tam meets the king at a festival and he falls in love with her, but Cam tries to take her place by stealing her shoe. Tam escapes with the help of a bird that is her mother's reincarnation. The king finds Tam and marries her, while Cam and the stepmother are banished from the kingdom. Tam forgives them and lives happily ever after with the king.
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- The text is a transcript of a Vietnamese fairy tale called "Tấm Cám" or "The Rice and the Bramble".
- The main characters are Tấm, a kind and hardworking girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister Cám, and the king, who falls in love with Tấm and marries her.
- Tấm's only friend is a fish that she feeds and talks to, but Cám kills the fish and cooks it for dinner.
- Tấm finds the fish bones and buries them under a tree, which grows into a peach tree that gives her a magic dress and shoes to attend the king's festival.
- The king sees Tấm at the festival and is enchanted by her beauty, but she runs away and leaves one shoe behind.
- The king searches for the owner of the shoe and finds Tấm, who becomes his queen.
- Cám is jealous of Tấm and plots to kill her with the help of her mother. They push Tấm into a well and Cám takes her place as the queen.
- Tấm's spirit is reincarnated as a bird that sings to the king, but Cám kills the bird and cooks it for dinner.
- The bird's bones turn into a loom that weaves beautiful cloth for the king, but Cám destroys the loom and burns it.
- The loom's ashes turn into a gourd that contains a fairy who helps Tấm return to her human form and reunite with the king.
- The king discovers Cám's treachery and banishes her and her mother from the kingdom. He lives happily with Tấm ever after.