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Jul 21, 2010 22:10

Hundreds of years ago, there was a young farmer and his wife. After two years of living together, tending to animals and raising crops, they decided they wanted to have a child in their lives. It took them a very long time to conceive, and were overjoyed when the village doctor informed them that the wife was pregnant. In the months that followed, ( Read more... )

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[voice] peoplenpudding July 22 2010, 03:14:03 UTC

[crying. Millie loves these kinda stories]

[voice] orphism July 22 2010, 04:37:36 UTC

Oh, I didn't upset you, did I?

[voice] peoplenpudding July 22 2010, 13:36:25 UTC

Oh, no. I just love stories like these!

legallygreen July 22 2010, 03:22:03 UTC

That was quite lovely, thank you for sharing.

orphism July 22 2010, 04:37:47 UTC

You're welcome.

[Voice] adorasion July 22 2010, 03:28:52 UTC

That was such a beautiful story.

[Voice] orphism July 22 2010, 04:38:12 UTC

It's one of my favorites.

[voice] tiny_tinker_toy July 22 2010, 03:40:39 UTC

Actually, one of my books has a version of it...[rustling and then a victorious sound as she opens to the right page] It starts out the same, with the farmer and his wife, only they're unable to have children. One day, the wife said she'd do anything for a child ( ... )

[voice] orphism July 22 2010, 04:39:28 UTC

Interesting that it starts similarly to mine and veers off into a completely different direction.

[voice] why_halo_there July 23 2010, 22:10:42 UTC

Well...you know how if you tell somebody one thing and they spread it around, it'll come back completely different? Maybe it's something like that.

flailingbento July 22 2010, 03:59:25 UTC

In the version I learned, the flowers were a gift of luck from a benevolent dragon god. There was a small kingdom that had been suffering through a hundred-year drought. The crops were long dead and the supplies were gone, and no amount of praying would bring the rain back. Its king, Hanami, was in despair at the suffering of his people. So he went on a journey to find the dragon god and beg him to send the rain, because clearly he had simply forgotten about their little kingdom and needed to be reminded ( ... )

tiny_tinker_toy July 22 2010, 04:02:32 UTC

...I like your version a lot better, Kimi, though why do these things always have someone dying?

flailingbento July 22 2010, 04:05:54 UTC

...I don't know. I suppose because something sad has to happen for it to have a happy ending?

tiny_tinker_toy July 22 2010, 04:07:03 UTC

Well that's not right. Why do people have to die for other people to be happy?

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