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Elya Yelnats is in love with Myra menke
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Elya asks her father for permission but Igor Barkov did the same. Elya is fifteen and Igor is fifty seven.
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If Elya didn't carry madme Zeroni up the same mountain that he carried the pig up she would curse him and his decendants
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Elya asks for help from an old Egyptian woman.
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Elya carries a pig every day for two months to a mountain to drink from a stream to compete with Igors pig.
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Elyas pig weighs the same as Igors so Myra father has Myra decide which to marry.
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Myra can't decide between a boy her age or a man who is 57 years old.
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Elya becomes impatient with Myra because she can't decide so he leaves .
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Elya boards a ship to America. after the ship leaves he realized that he left Madame Zeroni with out taking her up the moutain.
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Elya's pig has grown enough to sway the hand of Myra's father