And he said, "Thy mother!"

A mighty cry of joy went forth through all the star, because the mother

was reunited to her two children. And he stretched out his arms and

cried, "O mother, sister, and brother, I am here! Take me!" And they

answered him, "Not yet." And the star was shining.

He grew to be a man whose hair was turning gray, and he was sitting in

his chair by the fireside, heavy with grief, and with his face bedewed

with tears, when the star opened once again.

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