Life abounds with unexpected happy endings <br />more successful romances than I ever supposed: <br />Consider the life of Lady Ellenborough, born Jane <br />Elizabeth Digby, a gay divorcee in eighteen thirty <br /> <br />She went to live in Damascus and the Syrian deserts <br />where she met Medjuel, a noble Bedouin - became <br />Jane Digby el Mezrab, spending six months a year <br />Western-style in her Damascus villa, the other six <br /> <br />Bedouin style in his desert tent, for a happy marriage of <br />twenty six years – in the desert she milked the camels, <br />served her husband, waiting on him as he ate, like any <br />Arab woman; called the White Devil by the Bedouins <br /> <br />Because of her courage, she killed an enemy sheik; <br />this beautiful love story satisfies my appetite for <br />happiness after being shocked by stories of sadness <br />and hatred – long live Lady Jane Digby el Mezrab <br /> <br />In love with and adored by her husband, <br />Medjuel, till the day of her death…<br /><br />Margaret Alice<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bedouin-style-in-his-desert-tent/
