Wow, you received the Connected Hearts Journal! Congratulations!!! Do you know the legend behind this journal? As the story goes, long back, several hundreds of years ago, in a land far, far away called Trutopia, everyone used to live happily and in peace. The reason for their happiness and peace was that all the parents and children of Trutopia had special magical powers -- they could cure each other of any form of sorrows, fears or unhappiness. This unique magic came from little invisible threads called heartstrings that went between a parent’s heart and the child’s heart. Nobody knew where the little heartstrings initially came from, but every time a parent and child had fun together the heartstrings multiplied, and every time they had a fight a heartstring would get broken. So parents and children always took great care to do more fun stuff together than to fight. And by the time the children grew up, they would have so many little heartstrings between their hearts, that even if they went far away from their parents, say to college or to find a job, they could still heal each other. For most parents and children, hundreds of miles between them was no problem at all. And in many cases, there could be thousands of miles between them and they could go for years without meeting each other, and still the healing magic of their invisible heartstrings would work. They would all still always be happy and at peace. As time went by though, life got busier in Trutopia. Parents and children had less and less time to spend with each other. 1