The result was a series of cartoon stories called Little Lit.

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The Little Lit series will continue.

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It was this broad avenue, hung with bobbing white lanterns, alight with girls fluent in yukata (a light kimono) and little boys carrying lit-up white globes, that greeted me my first night in Kyoto, in 1984, on a three-day visit through Japan with my mother, en route to India.

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Candles were lit on Little Green Lane in Small Heath on Monday night, near to where Mohammed Saleem, 75, was stabbed three times in the back.

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She gave a little smile and her face lit up.

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As she told my sons about Christmas when she was a little girl, her eyes lit up when she talked of the joy of finding an orange in her Christmas stocking.

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Department stores are decorated, houses are lit, and all the little Hoos in Hooville are gathering around the tree to sing Hanukkah carols.

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It went out in the air so he lit another match and placed it gingerly in a little pool of whiskey.

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Looking a little like a Marrakesh riad transplanted to Austria, Arte Vida has a lantern-lit communal salon and a Moorish garden replete with tent and shisha pipes.

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Head bartender Jan Warren admits that first-time guests are sometimes "a little freaked out" by Dutch Kills' location on a deserted industrial street with a spooky lit-up "BAR" sign.

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Visits from a GP, psychiatrist and psychologist did little to help, he said, but then he said a prayer, anointed the girl and lit a candle on his visit.

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