Hobbits have a particular way of finding their Soulmate or Heart as they like to call them. Their first word is the first name of their Heart's name so the young faunts are watched constantly, the parents fearing if the first word is missed the wee one will never find their Soulmate, their Heart. It was quite scandalous when Bungo Baggins first word was Belladonna and Belladonna Took first word was Bungo. A Baggins and a Took?! Some laughed and nudged Mungo Baggins shoulder and said: "Opposites to attract after all and maybe you boy will make a Respectable Hobbit out of a Took yet!" And despite all the tongue wagging and gossip mills Bungo and Belladonna became an inseparable couple, though it took some doing on Bungo's part. Belladonna liked adventuring thank you very much and she wasn't about to stop just because some fussy soft soled, she never said that to his face because she liked him contrary to his non adventuring ways, busybody was her Heart. And so Bungo built and gifted her Bag End, "I won't force you to stay but I'll build you a home to come back to anyways. Even if you decide never to marry or to marry another it will be yours."
Now marrying some not your Soulmate is very, very, very rare almost as rare as a Hobbit having a Big Person as a Soulmate but it can and has happened. But Bungo's clear love of her and understanding of her free spirit won her over and after one last adventure with the Gray Wizard she came back, a bouquet of apple blossoms, asters, daisies, pansies, red roses all tied together with ivy which she gave to Bungo. The bouquet may not have been pleasing to the eyes but the message it conveyed caused many romantic's and even some unromantic's such as Camelia Sackville Baggins to coo. And for awhile Belladonna was a very respectable Hobbit she even gifted Bungo with an heir, Bilbo. Though when no other children seem to be forthcoming the gossip mills started up again. They spoke a barrenness that comes with going outside of the Shire's borders. "Don't you know she went all the way to Rivendell!" The rumors kept until Fell Winter came upon them then they were very grateful for Belladonna's Tookishness. But that is for latter discussion what is important is that while Bungo and Belladonna's first words caused a scandal little Bilbo caused his parents heartache. For his first word was not a name, no it was 'dwarf' though it sounded more like 'warf' until the next time Belladonna sat down with a picture book of the other races that she read to Bilbo and he pointed to the picture of a dwarf and said his word quite proudly.
It isn't until his fifth birthday that they realize that their child is not in fact without a Soulmate but instead has one of a different race. Little Bilbo came to Bungo on day asking him why he always heard beautiful singing in his dreams. Always. Now Bungo hadn't known why but Belladonna had and she told him and worried for him. Because Dwarves very rarely come to the Shire and while he was already showing so Tookishness he was in fact a Baggins probably never leave the Shire. One can never say that Belladonna never gave her son a fighting chance. As he aged and after many failed attempts of having another child she taught him how to survive out in the big wide world while Bungo taught him how to be a Respectable Gentle Hobbit. And they were happy but happiness is fleeting and Winters are cold and harsh. With the spring after Fell Winter at the young age of twenty two Bilbo Baggins gives up the dream of finding his Heart and settles for hearing him sing in his dreams, the only reprieve of the crippling loss of his father and intimate loss of his mother. Belladonna hangs on for twelve years seeing her only child past his coming of age before passing and leaving him alone in Bag End. That is until a certain Wizard shows up unexpectedly.