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The ribbon led her here.

To a room without windows. Only a mirror.
Oval. Gilded. Older than truth.

Clara stood before it and waited.
She expected Frida.
But Frida didn’t come.

Instead, Clara saw herself.
Not the self she knew—tired eyes, ink-stained hands.
But the self beneath.
The girl with fire in her chest.
The woman who stitched stories from silence.
The one who remembered how to bloom under pressure.

And then, behind her in the glass, a shadow moved.
Frida.

“The story was never mine,” she whispered.
“I only held it long enough to give it back.”

The ribbon, once tangled, now threads through Clara’s fingers.
She doesn’t pull it.
She lets it guide her.

On the table before her:
A finished piece.
One she didn’t plan.
One that feels like truth.

A golden corset pin, etched with flowers.
A mirror framed in marigolds.
A crack filled with light.

She doesn’t need answers now.
She understands.

Some stories are not about finding who you were.
They’re about becoming who you already are.

And sometimes, you carry the garden.
And sometimes, it carries you.

💬 What have you been carrying, unknowingly?
And what would it mean to finally put it down?

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