people are going to come to get me.  Since, unavoidably, I must take my leave, the fact is, from this spring I’ve been lamenting how sad it will be as you grieve on it.’  Saying this, she wept exceedingly, whereupon the Elder said ‘This … what is it that you’re saying?  I found you inside a bamboo, and although you were but the size of a rapeseed, 

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