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At 2:17 a.m., she woke up. Moonlight spilled through the blinds. She tiptoed to the kitchen, heart thumping.

She didn’t grow a garden of flowers that night. She grew something better: a garden of light, grown from water and waiting. crystal growing diy

“Now we wait,” Lena said, though the word tasted sour in her mouth. At 2:17 a

“Now what?” Mom asked.

She boiled water on the stove (with Mom watching carefully) and poured it into the jar. Then she stirred in spoonful after spoonful of borax until the water could take no more—a supersaturated solution, she learned to call it. At the bottom of the jar, a few white grains refused to dissolve, like sleepy snow at the bottom of a lake. She didn’t grow a garden of flowers that night

By morning, the string had turned into a glittering icicle. She pulled it out carefully—a whole chain of crystals, like diamonds from another world.