LOVE BLOWS FROM REUNION
Episode 168: MIMI LAN MINTUNO

    "Wah .., Mas Yudi and Mbak Yuna is like mimi lan mintuno" said one of the mothers who was shopping at a vegetable shop.

    "Yes .., the twists and turns continue ..." said another mother.

    "Walah .., who walks ..., what good to be a newlywed ..." said another.

    "To the west ..., together .... To the east ..., together .... To the north ..., also together. To the south must be together. Wis, just fun is ..." said another.

    "This is .., whose name is mimi lan mintuno" said the basket.

    "Don't on ngiri .... Sampeyan used to be a new spell like this, right?" Yudi replied with a smile.

    "Here, Mas Yudi .... Boro-boro .... I was finished incense even left to wander as his father. Back home, the fat is big, already can mbrangkang." sahut the vegetable basket.

    "Together with me, Yu .... Lha wong wedding has not been completed, the father has been awaited his friend, invited to go to work to Kalimantan. Not going home yet. Good thing I haven't been that, so yeah no kid. Hehe ..." other sahut.

    "Hahaha ..." Everyone who was there laughed at the story.

    "Lucky, Ma'am Yuna .... You can go out with Mas Yudi" said the mothers in the shop.

    "Yes .., I am grateful to be able to travel together .... Thank you, yes .... We're going for another walk. Monggo ..." said Yudi.

    "Yes, Mas Yudi .., Ms. Yuna .... Please ..." said the mothers in the shop.

    Just a step walk, there are fathers who meet on the road. Then the father said, "Mas Yudi ...! Ma'am Yuna ...! A walk, yeah ...?"

    "Yes, Mr. Lik ..." replied Yudi.

    "Waaah .... Like mimi lan mintuno ..." said the father who met on the street.

    "Hehehe .... Nggih, Mr. Lik .... Where is Mr Lik going?" Yudi changed to ask.

    "Halah .., you want to take a coconut in the garden." replied the father who kept walking.

    "Be careful, Mr. Lik ..." said Yudi to let go of the fathers.

    Yudi and Yuna continued their footsteps. Passing through the neighbors' houses. Which of course still goes hand in hand.

    "Monggo, Mbah ..." said Yudi when he saw a grandmother sweeping the yard.

    "We alah .., Mas Yudi to this .... This is Ma'am Yuna, yes .... Walah, like mimi lan mintuno ..." said the grandmother.

    "Walah, the Princess's Cessation .... Just take a walk, Mbah ..." replied Yudi.

    "Almost first .... Monggo pinarak ..." said the grandmother told Yudi and Yuna to stop by her house.

    "Thank you, Mbah ..." said Yuna, who kept walking with her husband.

    "Monggo, Mbah ..." Yudi added.

    "Yo ..." replied the grandmother who kept an eye on the departure of the two men, whom she considered to be mimi lan mintuno.

    Every time you meet someone on the street, Yudi and Yuna are always said to be like mimi lan mintuno. For Yudi, it was already common to be heard. But to Yuna, those were foreign words she had just heard. It certainly brings curiosity to him.

    "What is Mimi lan mintuno, Yudi ...? How come everyone who meets us always says those words." asked Yuna when she left the grandmother who also said mimi lan mintuno, just as the people who met before said.

    "Ooh .., that .... Mimi lan mintuno is the name of a crab type animal. In Indonesian the name of this animal is belangkas. In English it is called horseshoe crabs or horseshoe crabs. It is named horseshoe crabs because of its shape similar to horseshoe shoes. The Javanese gave the name 'mimi' for female belangkas, and 'mintuno' for male sex. These animals live in shallow waters of coastal areas, in brackish areas and in mangrove forest areas. Most unique to this mimi and mintuno animal, these two different animals always go hand in hand together, the female in front and the male in back, do not want to be separated. This animal is monogamous, one female one male, does not want to change partners. It is even said that these animals have a very long life expectancy, as long as they are not separated from their partners. There are even studies that say, if this animal is cooked, it must be cooked simultaneously or a pair, in order to be eaten. But if cooked separately with his partner, this animal will remove toxins. It can be deadly for those who eat it. So ..., if we walk alone together and join hands like this, that's what they say we're like mimi and mintuno." Yudi explained to Yuna.

    "Yes .... Loyal couple to death." said Yudi.

    "Really ...?!" ask Yuna.

    "really. I will take care of you until the end of my life. If we are separated, then I will never marry again. That's my vow." said Yudi reassuring his love for Yuna.

    "Rayuan gombal ..." said Yuna who mocked her husband.

    "Because .... Right, Honey ..." said Yudi who immediately poked his wife's nose.

    That is the picture mimi lan mintuno expressed by the people of Nirwana Village to Yudi and Yuna. Yuna and Yudi are now always together when traveling. Walk around the village, greet the neighbors, stroke the heads of children, and most often meet the benches to tempt them. And finally, the snacksman gave his food to Yuna. And no less left behind, Yuna and Yudi together supervise Taman Awang-awang, as well as around the village to observe places for children and teenagers activities and cadet coral.

    Time keeps going. The day starts in the afternoon. Yuna invited Yudi to sit on the southern edge of Taman Awang-awang. On the ocean side. The place that since the first time to build Taman Awang-awang, Yuna always witnessed the beauty of the South Sea as if to invite herself to speak.

    "Judi .... Do you remember this place? Long ago when we built this place, every afternoon I waited for Yudi here" Yuna told Yudi.

    "Yes .... I remember that. And Yuna is always spoiled on my shoulders." replied Yudi.

    "Do you remember this ring we wore?" ask Yuna again.

    "Yes .... At that time, we asked the blessing of the Queen of the South Coast, to give an answer about our love. Although others thought it was just a myth, but in fact, Yuna had already got an answer. Your body is flushed with water by the Queen Kanjeng. Yuna's whole body was wet. Even Yuna was helpless. Then I poked into the car and I opened all the wet clothes Yuna, then I covered your body with a makeshift cloth. And the afternoon of the next day, we find this ring in a puddle of sea water that soaks your body." recalls Yudi on the occasion, in the first moments of building Taman Awang-awang.

    "Yudi, whenever I sit here, in this place ..., as I stare at the blue ocean, watching the waves that are chasing, I feel something strange about this sea. I understand, but foreign. I can't express it with words." Yuna said to her husband.

    "That's just Yuna's feeling ..." Yudi said.

    "Yes, Judy .... But every time I watched the high seas, on the southern horizon, it was as if an army would come to me, and would take me away.." said Yuna, who told her of her inner vision.

    "Ah, don't fantasize like that, dear .." Yudi said to his wife.

    "Yes, Yudi ..." said Yuna who then laid her head on her husband's shoulder. Exactly the same time every afternoon first, when they both observed the waves of the South Beach.

    Yudi stroked his wife's hair. So tidy. They both looked at the beauty of the blue ocean waves. Though their wishful thinking had already drifted into Yuna's delusion.

    "Yudi ..., are we really like mimi and mintuno?" yuna asked suddenly.

    "Hopefully so. Our love is not separated forever." Yudi said.

    "Yudi, is it true that mimi and mintuno are separated between the male and the female, and then she will die?" ask Yuna again.

    "Yes .... Perhaps the lives of this mimi and mintuno couple have been fused with a sense of loyalty. Or at least, if one partner of them is lost, the other will experience severe stress, which will eventually die quickly" said Yudi who wrote. Because there has been no research.

    "Yudi, my feelings about the ring we wear, are a bond of life for us. Like mimi and mintuno. We've been tied up by the South Sea Queen Kanjeng. For us to be mimi and mintuno" said Yuna who began to delight in the mystical story about the Queen of the South Sea.

    "Maybe it's like that, baby. But even though this has nothing to do with the rings with mimi and mintuno, rest assured, that I will faithfully accompany Yuna" Yudi said, again reassuringly.

    "Thank you, dear ..." said Yuna who clenched her husband's waist tighter.

    "Mimi lan mintuno .... Is it true that this ring is a bond from the Queen of the South Sea, to create mimi lan mintono on myself and Yuna ...?" yudi's mind was full of question marks.

    The afternoon began to decline. The sun is approaching the western horizon. It'll be night soon. Ocean waves are rising, the influence of the full moon's gravity.

    Yudi and Yuna were still sitting in her beloved place. Watching the beautiful waves rolling. Then a very high wave, came splashing water, wet the mimi lan mintuno.