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The Little Station Where the Leaves Came to Rest

11 min · England · Kindness · Company

At a small countryside railway halt in early autumn, a child who gives away paper boats and persimmons to travelers discovers, along with a quiet old gentleman waiting for a train he is in no hurry to catch, that the smallest and most purposeless kindness is the one that warms an entire valley.

Retold from The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit.

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Story 1 of Nightfall, starting at 1:12.