The Shop of Borrowed Moments
Time You Can Hold Just Long Enough
A tiny shop loaned out moments—five minutes of courage, ten seconds of joy, one hour of clarity. People returned them transformed. But a child once asked for “one moment of being loved.” The shopkeeper gave him an entire afternoon, refusing to take it back. Some moments, he decided, were not meant to be borrowed but gifted.
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