Well Charlie, wind and rain do make music together, oh, and the sounds are wild. Right now that is exactly what I have going on outside, a storm, and the wind is taking the rain and twirling it around in circles, and then you hear it roaring real low and it suddenly bellows up into a kind of like great laughter from way deep down somewhere,
The jist of the story, which is all I remember after all these years, is the old man tells her if he could teach her how to have eternal life so she would always be at peace and never have any worries, he would. The only thing she would have to do is give up her previous life and all of her friends and family. After traveling down the river with him she looks over and tells him she will take her chance with what she will behold in the future, but would never choose eternal life if she had to do without her friends, and so would go back to America.
Scandi