... The beautiful princess received the story that the fine young man had written, and read it with great interest. She loved the story. She loved the way he wrote. Moreover, she understood that the fine young man was really writing about them two and knew that reading the story allowed her to understand the thoughts and intentions of the fine young man.
The beautiful princess felt great joy in reading the story, for it was a fairy tale, and much more important fairy tale was about her favorite subject-LOVE! A story within a story within a story……
“This story makes me feel so strange-yet so wonderful” she thought. Then she laughed-because she knew it was the story of her life. She knew then that the wise old man had chosen the two of them very well, and told him that she wished, finally, to meet the fine young man. The wise old man told the fine young man that he was to meet the beautiful princess the next day. And so they met.
The fine young man arrived at the meeting place- a small clear forest, a little early and wondered greatly at how the princess might look. Might she have three eyes? Or only one leg? What if she was 750 pounds?
Before long, the princess emerged from the edge of the forest. He stood in the middle of the clearing. He stared at her intently as she approached. He immediately noticed two things about her. First, she was more beautiful than he could have imagined. Second, she would not look at him. He wondered why she would not look at him-did she find him not handsome?
They both began to talk at the same time. The words just flowed out like waterfall. They were like two children. The moment one stopped talking, the other would start. And they talked. They talked about life. They talked about the world. They talked about their past. But more than anything else-they talked about love, love, love. Old love and new love, ideal love and real love, loves past and the hope for loves future.
The hours ticked on and still they talked. The fine young man was not able to remember when, but at one point he realized that she did indeed look at him. And he looked at her. When she spoke, he looked deeply into her eyes. While they talked, his eyes looked into hers and his mind asked ‘Are you The One?’ ‘Are you my next love?’ He wondered very much if she had any idea of what he was thinking while he looked into her eyes.
He listened to what she said and realized that she had many wonderful qualities. She was clearly very smart, very articulate, very well educated. She was kind, sincere. She was honest and open. And she was a beauty! A few times, while she talked, he looked at her and imagined what she looked like smile. He knew that she would be very beautiful indeed.
Although the sun was high when they had met, and it was now starting to dip below the horizon-it seemed only a few minutes had gone by. Despite all the talking they had done, they both felt that they had so much more to say.
The beautiful princess said she had to go and leave. The fine young man said he wished to walk with her safely through the forest. But she said no. She said she was able to take care of herself, and also that she had many animal friends in the forest to look after her.
She turned one time to the fine man, embraced him, and then told him to sit down. He obeyed her. She looked at him and said “I thank you sir, for a truly magical afternoon.”
The beautiful princess turned and walked through the forest to the edge and without even looking back, disappeared....
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