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The wife is sad that the merchant left and is still not back, she is not sure what to do without him.
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The wife is anxiously waiting for her husband to come back home. So they can finally be together again. She has written him a letter saying to meet her at Cho-fu-Sa which is hundreds of miles away from Chokan.
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When she was 16, the merchant left for a trip to Ku-to-en to go sell some goods, she had been waiting for him for for 5 months.
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The speaker married the merchant at the age of 14, she was very bashful and quiet, at first she wasn't very happy with the marriage
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She stopped scowling and she was happy being with the merchant and she loved him, and he loved her. She wanted to grow old and die with him
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The kids met by the front gate, the girl was picking flowers while the merchant was playing horse with bamboo stilts and also blue plums.
