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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The year begins in hushed white, a blank page heavy with snow. Bare branches etch their prayers against the indifferent sky. Something stirs beneath the frost~ not hope, not yet, but the slow turning of roots in the dark. We are all waiting to be thawed.
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