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 A very wealthy man gave birth to a son. On the son's sixteenth birthday, The man asked him what he wanted, and 

said that he would get anything his heart could desire. The son only asked for a pink ping pong ball. His father was 

curious, but complied. After they had cake and ice cream and the son opened his presents, he went up to his room 

with the pink ping pong ball. The ball was never seen again.The next year, on the son's seventeenth birthday, the man 

asked him what he wanted, and said that, since he was starting college early, he could have anything he wanted. The 

son only asked for a crate of pink ping pong balls. His father was confused, but he got a crate. After they had cake and 

ice cream and the son opened his presents, he went up to his room with the crate pink ping pong balls. neither the 

crate nor the balls were ever seen again.The next year, on the son's eighteenth birthday, the man asked him what he 

wanted, and said that, since eighteen is a big milestone, he could have anything he wanted. The son asked for a truck 

full of pink ping pong balls. The father couldn't hold it any longer. he asked "what do you want with these pink ping 

pong balls?" The son only asked that he trust him a little longer. the father valued his sons privacy, so he did not pry, 

and bought his son a truck full of pink ping pong balls. After the sons extravagant eighteenth birthday party, he went 

out to the truck alone. The next morning, the pink ping pong balls were nowhere to be found.The next year, on the 

son's nineteenth birthday, The man asked If the son still wanted pink ping pong balls. The son said that he would like 

a warehouse full of pink ping pong balls. The father had predicted as much, and was very rich, so he had their 

chauffeur drive the son downtown to a warehouse purchased for this express purpose. When the son got there, he 

asked that the chauffeur leave him there overnight. The chauffeur, not one to disagree with his superior, left him. The 

next morning, when the chauffeur went to retrieve the son, the entire warehouse was empty. There were no pink ping 

pong balls to be found.The next year, just before his twentieth birthday, the son got in a car crash. When he was 

recovering in the hospital, the father went to visit him on his birthday. He asked, "Son, is there anything I can do to 

ease your pain? What shall I get you for your birthday?" The son only asked for a single pink ping pong ball. The 

father said, "You will have that, only tell me what you do with all these pink ping pong balls." The son said he would 

explain once he had the pink ping pong ball. The father went down to the corner store and bought a single pink ping 

pong ball. When he returned to the room, the son was having lunch. He sat down next his son and gave him the pink 

ping pong ball, "Now, please, tell me what you do with them." The son spoke, slowly and with a stutter inflicted by the 

car crash "I wanted all those pink ping pong balls because I..." He died mid-sentence.