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Joyful Echoes
Smiles as civic currency.
Joy in New Orleans echoes before it explains itself — smile on the corner, laughter in the bakery line, music leaking from a door you were not invited through and still benefit from.
A grin here is not decoration. It is bridge currency — short distance, high value, spent fast.
Tapestry is declined. Accurate is overlap: your happiness briefly belongs to the block.
The echo returns on the next corner.
JV · Dark Heart Labs