A Tragic Tale of Unusual Shapes
In a world where geometry was the only law, the parabola was the ultimate symbol of sorrow.
It was a shape so curved, so smooth, that it brought tears to the eyes of mathematicians everywhere.
The parabola's tragic tale began when it tried to be a circle, but failed, and instead became a sad, sad ellipse.
Its vertex was lost, its axis was broken, and its symmetry was shattered.
And so, the parabola wept, its tears forming a new, even more tragic shape: the hyperbola.
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