The Music Box That Played Lives
Melodies Shaped by Memory
A music box played a different tune for each listener. A widow heard her wedding song. A child heard a lullaby never sung to him. A traveler heard footsteps on gravel—the rhythm of every place he’d wandered. When the box broke, silence filled the room. Then, from within the silence, came a single note that belonged to everyone. People realized the box had not broken; it had completed its final symphony: the shared music of being alive.
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