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Every autumn in a small village in China, families carried lanterns into the forest.<\/p>\n

Each lantern represented a person they had lost.<\/p>\n

Children asked why.<\/p>\n

Their parents explained:<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause love should not disappear when someone does.\u201d<\/p>\n

At night, hundreds of lanterns glowed between the trees.<\/p>\n

The forest looked like a sky filled with stars.<\/p>\n

One young girl released her lantern into the river.<\/p>\n

It floated away slowly.<\/p>\n

She whispered her grandmother’s name.<\/p>\n

The tradition continued for generations.<\/p>\n

The villagers never forgot the people represented by those lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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