Red Paper Flower
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This story began as a screenplay-written by a 19-year-old for a college project in 2013. Years later, it returns in a new form: not rewritten, but remembered.
A story about waiting, longing, and the quiet kind of love that endures in silence.
Do you believe that love, once lost, can still find its way back to you?
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