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The Festival of Silent Wishes

Intentions Released Like Lanterns

By GoldenSpeechPublished 2 months ago 1 min read

Each year, villagers gathered to release silent wishes into the night sky using paper lanterns. But only lanterns carrying unspoken truths rose high. A young woman’s lantern barely lifted until she admitted — silently — her deepest longing. The moment she embraced it, her lantern soared higher than all others.

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