Daughters of Jerusalem 6:1 Where has your beloved gone, most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Woman 2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to flowerbeds of balsam, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies. 3 I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine —he who grazes in the lilies. “And so they lived happily ever after …” is the typical fairy-tale ending. Except that they didn’t. No one ever does. Had it been a true story, Prince Charming would
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