A Final Word

And that's the story of Cupid and Psyche. Of course, if you were listening closely, and I know you were, I bet you heard a lot of your own story, didn't you? That's the tricky thing about stories. You think you're hearing a story about somebody else, and then something clicks and you start to feel that the story is about you.

The interesting thing about this particular story is that it taught me that sometimes I act like Cupid and sometimes I act like Psyche. Stories don't much care who's male and who's female, because everybody has a little of both inside them.

That's why this story and my story and your story, well, they're all the same story. You know what I mean? If this story which was first told way back in the year one hundred fits you and me today like it was ours to begin with, then just because we have different names and different faces, it doesn't mean we're not living the same story. Because we are.

We certainly are.

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