" Amy, we must go. Good–by, dear, do come and see us. We are pining for a visit. I don't dare to ask you, Mr. Lamb, but if you should come, I don't think I shall have the heart to send you away."
That morning Aunt Pitty had reached the regretful decision that she had better kill the patriarch before he died of old age and pining for his harem which had long since been eaten.
" Poor poor me. Now I've tasted chocolate, I'll never be happy again." The keepers noticed that he had gone off his bananas and they worried that he was pining away.
Sara, you wrote a companion column for this cover story about your daughter actually kind of pining for a time when phones weren't omnipresent. How did being a parent affect how you came to this story?
As for Berliners pining to stroll through the Ishtar Gate, flanked by a magnificent menagerie of sacred Babylonian animals, they should remember that for 2,500 years it was never possible.