Story Prescription: A favourite tale that shows us that after darkness there is light, that after winter there is spring, that after grief, there is hope.

Story Caution: This story contains contains themes of rape within a paradigm of mythic narrative.

A story from Ancient Greece, about a daughter called Persephone's abduction, and her mournful, wrathful and unrelenting search by her mother, Demeter.

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Story Sources: Homer; Ovid; Myths of the Sacred Tree

Story Prescription: To know love, we also must know that it may not last forever. To appreciate life, we must know that it cannot stay for eternity. This is a story about love and about death, and how the two are interlinked. Mostly it's a story about life and love, from Armenia.

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