Sparks
A spark is a beginning, a moment of heat more likely to vanish than turn into a conflagration. It can be an idea, a problem, a moment, a person, a movement, a bomb, or, on occasion, an actual fire. But historians know that any spark they find is itself also a middle and an end.
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