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Chapter 124 - The Wish Beneath the Lantern Tree

Penulis: Elizabeth Jacob
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-06-05 16:56:33

I didn’t understand birthdays at first.

That seemed to upset Hope deeply.

“You never had a birthday cake?” she asked like I admitted to surviving entirely on rocks.

I shrugged awkwardly.

“I don’t remember.”

Which was true.

I remembered more things now than before.

A river.

A blue scarf.

My sister yelling because I climbed dangerous places.

But entire years of my life still felt blurry around the edges.

Sometimes that scared me.

What if parts never came back?

What if pieces of me stayed lost for
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