The Gardener and the Tulip
Every day without fail, an older man heads to the same garden with his paints and brushes. He's there for the tulips—specifically, he's been trying to capture them on canvas for what seems like forever. It's become his routine, his whole reason for being out there.
One afternoon, he crosses paths with a young girl named Kumi. They both notice something unusual: a tulip that's actively growing, not just sitting there looking pretty. It's in that raw, unfinished stage—the kind most people walk past without thinking twice. But not them. Something about seeing it that way, alive and in motion through its growth cycle, made them both stop and pay attention.
Instead of just watching from a distance, they decided to get involved. They started taking care of it together—watering it, watching for problems, seeing what would happen if they actually invested in keeping this one plant alive. It turned into something bigger than either of them probably expected, this partnership between an old painter and a kid over a single growing tulip.
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