The child put the spade away and lifted the time capsule.
"What is in here, grandma?"
"Things I feared might be lost forever. So I took some and buried when I was young. Open it."
"Oh!" the child said, "I know what these are. This is joy, and this is hope."
"They weren't lost."
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