[EDIT 7/15/12] Okay, due to some complications, I had to move the challenge page to a forum. Please check it out for the list of themes and for future challenges to the Harvest Moon community. It's called Challenges from the Homestead, the same name as the community I've started.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harvest Moon.
Lillia
Every day, from behind the counter of the small chicken farm, Lillia would look out the window, hoping to see her husband walking down the path to see her again. Every day, she could feel herself getting weaker and weaker, dying a slow, aching death. How she hoped her beloved Rod would come back soon with that mystical healing flower, so that she could walk without pain, so that she could see without forcing her eyelids open.
But it wasn't a selfish desire—she only wanted to be strong for Rick and Popuri, so that they wouldn't have to see their mother die until she was a ripe old age, so that she could attend their weddings, so that she could play with her grandchildren one day… Lillia only wanted to be healed out of love, deep love for her two children.