In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized.
But folding cranes, and the meditative, solemn care that it involves, has come to mean more than just an exercise in wish making.
Origami cranes have become a symbol of renewal, atonement, and warning.
Their symbolism may have emerged out of Japan's particular mythology and history, but they do not belong to any one nation.
The crane is a migratory bird that crosses borders and makes its h.
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