A Thousand Paper Cranes
April 16th, 2007
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Ooh - did you know your crane has arrived? Just saw it on the website.
“Toward the end of WWII, when the nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 12 year old Sadako Sasaki lost her parents. She was devastated by what she was experiencing and by watching children die around her every day.
She prayed that there would be peace on earth and decided to fold a thousand cranes out of the square paper her medicine was wrapped in. She was convinced that if she managed to get to one thousand, her wish would come true.
After completing 644 cranes, Sadako passed away.
A thousand cranes bound together on a string is called a Sembazuru and it’s said that if you complete one within a year, you will live a long and happy life.”
I knew I’d heard about this before… and I only wish I had a dollar…