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" 'Your brother has come home,' the servant replied. 'Your father has killed the fattest calf. He has done this because your brother is back safe and sound.'
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"The older brother became angry. He refused to go in. So his father went out and begged him.
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"But he answered his father, 'Look! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I have always obeyed your orders. You never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
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But this son of yours wasted your money with some prostitutes. Now he comes home. And for him you kill the fattest calf!'
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" 'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me. Everything I have is yours.
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But we had to celebrate and be glad. This brother of yours was dead. And now he is alive again. He was lost. And now he is found.' "