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The Child Who Came Down the Water Stair
On a hillside of flooded rice terraces, an old farmer finds a small child sleeping in the moonlit water, and through the seasons that follow he learns that abundance arrives sideways, cannot be held tightly, and is made sweeter by the gentle willingness to let it go.
Retold from Japanese Fairy World, by William Elliot Griffis.
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Story 2 of Lantern Light, at 13:57.