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THE STORY OF SUMIO #Inspirational Moral Stories
An old
Japanese couple was sad for they had no children. Finding a bright,
shining
bamboo cane one evening, they slit it into two. Inside was a tiny
infant
girl! Overjoyed, they decided to bring her up as their own daughter.
Naming
her Sumio, they loved her dearly. She grew into the most beautiful
girl.
All the princes, and the emperor, wanted to marry her. Sumio refused
them
all. Though she whispered to the emperor that she was the Moon
Princess,
and her subjects would come to escort her back on the next full
moon
night. The emperor sent his army to surround her house.
But,
when the unworldly, splendid creatures of the moon came down a
pathway
of moonbeams, the emperor’s army simply gaped! Sumio was
carried
into the sky. And she took with her the old couple, who had loved her
as their
own daughter!
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