A letter to the ‘Seed We Ate’

‘Dear Peo’

You’re gone now, buried under unmade decisions and missed opportunities. But I hope you hear us. Today, I speak to you—not as metaphor or folklore, but as the thing we should’ve planted, nurtured, protected. The thing that could’ve saved us.

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