Cyparissus

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Marta Sanmamed. Cyparissus

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Marta Sanmamed & Sonja Wimmer

They would walk through the meadows together, and quietly spend their days in the garden of Olympus.

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The god Apollo heard him crying and tried to comfort the boy, but Cyparissus begged to be with the deer for all eternity. So Apollo, in his deep, booming voice, said, “You will be remembered by all of us. You will always be with your friend, and with all of those who suffer.”

Cyparissus cried and cried, until his arms turned into branches covered with green leaves, and his legs joined together to form a trunk that sank deep into the earth. He was turning into a cypress tree!

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