A ship’s captain notices smoke on the horizon and orders the ship to head towards the smoke. As the ship gets closer to the source of the smoke, the captain sees through his binoculars a small island with three huts and a man waving his arms to be rescued.
The ship sends a small boat to the island which returns with the man grateful for being rescued. The captain meets with this man to ask if there are any other people on the island. The man says that it has just been him alone on the island for the last two years, and every day he prayed to be rescued.
The captain was a bit puzzled as to why there were three huts on the island if the man was alone, so he asked about the three huts.
“Well,” the man says, “that first hut is my home,
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