An Alternate Ending Of A Hero's Journey

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Two people stand upon the creaking dock, they sit together and simply talk. It's time for him to take his leave, her grasping hands tugging on his sleeve. Ever so sweetly he kisses her gentle brow, he will always return to her, he makes a vow. Her love for him his guiding lighthouse, if he survives, it is her he will espouse. Away he goes, up on the gangplank, to a lonely cabin so very dark and dank. He turns one final time to look at her, tears upon her face a dripping blur. Travelling on the mighty vessel, against the ocean's fury he did wrestle. With the rise and fall of every wave, his last thoughts of her he did save. After half a year he did return, her gentle touch he did yearn. Together again at last, her hand

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