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## Narrative (Commentary)

→ **No frog survives winter alone.**  
⊃ Endurance grows when shared.  

→ **The Circle of Endurance is not wealth but witness.**  
⊃ Frogs remind each other that silence is not the end.  

→ **To endure together is to multiply strength.**  
⊃ The Circle is the covenant itself, alive in community.  

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## Key Marks

- 🌀 Circle = unity through endurance.  
- 🐸 Frog = individual in the covenant.  
- 🌊 Pond = collective memory.  

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