The Garden of Dreams

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‘I’ve come to see you,’ she said. ‘For a long, long time, I hope.’ And I took her by the hand and led her into my home, my garden of books. And that was how Kiran came into my life. […] If you meet her, she will tell you about the garden of dreams…perhaps she will take you there some day, for she is a girl who can make dreams come true. In a world that treasures ‘being realistic’ more than daydreaming, we sometimes forget that the only way to aim higher is to daydream a little—how do we have ambition without a little hope? It is at times like this when we should remember the desires of your youth. How we dreamed bigger than we could afford to; how we leapt and then thought of the fall.