Only Wonder Understands

Once upon a time, in a time much earlier than our own and a place far from here, lived an old man and an old woman. They had walked the earth for many years together as husband and wife. Many years before, when the possibilities of the world stretched endlessly before them, they had dreamed together of family, of children and grandchildren and both the joys and the heartaches that come with being parents. However, the years passed by with no child in site, and almost before they knew it, they discovered themselves to be old and gray, far past the years of bearing children. They still had one another, and loved each other with great passion, but there was an empty spot in their hearts as their dreams grew further and further away from reality.

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