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During my teenage years, I made it a point to go to the movies every Sunday afternoon after church. One Sunday afternoon, I watched the film Arabian Nights with lots of excitement. That was the first time I had watched a movie full of romance. The memories are still vivid in my mind up to this day. To give you an insight, the film was full of mischief, valour, ribaldry and romance.

The movie Arabian Nights has enthralled film goers for centuries. Briefly, it extricates the complex tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage and romance. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. That was Arabian Nights.

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