The Keeper of Birthdays

Behind the linen cupboard lives a quiet keeper who stores every year a child has lived inside a labelled glass jar. This year's jar has come back empty, and the only thing that fills it is giving away one thing you truly love. Deciding what to let go of turns out to be exactly what growing a year older means.

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