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Yes, here it is for those of us who read just the comments. The fable moved me too.The famous East Indian fable of the mustard seed reminds us that no one is immune to tragedy. A grieving mother goes to the gods in her despair and demands that her dead son be resurrected and returned. The gods agree — if she can bring them a mustard seed from a house that has lost neither child nor parent, spouse nor sibling nor friend. The desperate mother roams door to door, returning empty-handed — and with a new understanding of the inevitability of loss.