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A fisherman and his wife had two children: a boy and a girl.

They were deciding what to name the children, when the fisherman noticed that every time they stood on the balcony, the boy looked towards the ocean and the girl looked away from the ocean. So the boy was named Towards and the girl was named Away.Years later, the fisherman decided to take Towards and Away on their first fishing trip. A week after they left, the fisherman came back completely alone.”What happened to our children?” asked the fisherman’s wife.The fisherman burst into tears. “It was ghastly,” he said. “Three days into our voyage, an huge fish swallowed Towards whole. We pulled the enormous fish out of the ocean and cut it open, but our sweet little boy was already dead. We figured that at least we had caught a whopper, and the fish fed us for the rest of the trip.””That must have been one big fish,” said the wife.”You think that fish was big?” replied the husband. “You should have seen the one that got Away!”