Cherished and Adored

The eldest daughter of a great general married far away, a thousand miles from home. At first, she sang “Ode to Longing,” a song about a woman yearning for the parents she had left behind in the capital. People have feelings, and even the night-blooming cereus must eventually fade. Her courage in marrying so far from home must not be betrayed. He treated her with sincerity and cherished her for a lifetime. As time flowed on, she sang “Sea of Forgotten Hometown,” and came to feel more at home with her husband’s family than in the place where she had been born and raised for over a decade.