Welcome! Everything is fine.

Congrats! It’s a great show.

That's an important first step.

This is the "anados", the return of the goddess, and even if her world had crumbled, the first step on the road to recovery is laughing at a dumb joke.

So we've got work to do, but remember to laugh at the dumb jokes along the way.

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Eventually, the obscene Baubo did a comical little dance with stupidly inappropriate gestures, and Demeter couldn't help but laugh.

This is how she knew she would be okay: even if the material was stupid or a little gross, even if her world was never going to be the same, she could laugh.

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Demeter went all over in search of her daughter, and eventually sat down at the well in Eleusis, despondent.

There, all the gods tried to cheer her up, but nothing worked, she was too distraught.

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