One day, they arrived at a place covered with beautiful gardens in full bloom. Everywhere she looked there were gardens surrounding her. When she looked down, she noticed herself, her own true self, her slender self, emerging from all the layers and she realized that she too was beautiful. She saw and felt her beauty, and her freedom. She felt exhilarated with energy. She wanted to sing and dance.
The stranger seemed to read her mind and said, "Yes, do dance and sing, my dear. Do feel your wonderful energy, your glow of happiness, your delight in your slinderness." And so, the your woman began to skip and whirl and leap and run. Sometimes she would run ahead of the stranger and then she would dance circles around the stranger, feeling full of glee and mischief, and sometimes she would run back to pick a flower and put it in her shining hair. Smiling and laughing, sometimes she would gather flowers and present them to the stranger. She was so happy to be free that she said to the stranger, "Let's stop here, this is so lovely." And the stranger said, "Not yet, my dear. We are almost there, but not quite."
The young woman asked, with wonder in her eyes, "What other delights could there be?" The stranger smiled wisely and said, "You will see, my dear, you will see!"
One morning, they came into a city of shinning buildings and luxuriant gardens. All about her, everywhere, the young woman saw others, slender and beautiful like her. They greeted her, and they welcomed her, and they asked for her name. Timidly she asked them names in return. They invited her to join in their dances and thier singing, and they included her in their family, and that is how she became part of the wonderful community that dwells among the gardens. She learned to share and to work with others. Then one day, she singled out a particular person who also seemed to single her out. They joined hands and decided to be special to each other. And so the young woman lived quite happily ever after!
