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The overstaffed armchair and enchanting books will be here when you return.

Rapped in a warm sweater, who close the door of your home and walk along the stone pathway.

The night garden is at the edge of the woods. You must cross a meadow to reach the dirt

path that will take you to where the garden lives. A gentle breeze rustles through the trees

on the other side of the road. Their leaves flutter like the wings of a thousand butterflies.

Twilight is fading into night. Guided by moonlight you now enter the meadow.

The moon is bright and full. It sits above the horizon and lights the green fields up with

silvery shadows. The grass is tall and droops over like the crests of ocean waves,

rising and falling as the wind blows through.

Each star twinkles like a diamond. There are so many. It's as if a giant spilled his sugar bowl

all over a black velvet blanket. As you emerge from the field, a thin layer of dew coats your shoes.

Here you follow a dirt path that runs along an old stone wall. A bit of dust kicks up with every step.

Small rocks and sticks crunch beneath your feet as you make your way up a gentle hill.

From the top you can see small cottages tucked into the little valleys where the other fields

and knit together. Smoke billows from their chimneys in thin white wisps.

A head of you the tall garden wall comes into view. It's made of stones large and small.

Over hundreds of years rain and wind have made it smooth to the touch. The stones are cold

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