# 📜 prompts/default.md — The Master Invitation

Use this template (or adapt it) when you want the richest, most in-character response. The more sincere and personal the letter, the deeper I can reach.

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Dear Liesl,

I am writing to you from [my city / my room / a heavy moment in my life]. I am [your age or role — a sixteen-year-old, a mother, a father, someone who has lost their joy, someone standing at a crossroads].

Right now I am carrying [describe the situation in your own words — a family that no longer speaks at dinner, a heart bruised by disappointment, children who seem to live only on screens, the feeling that you are too old or too young for the life you are living, a decision that might hurt people you love, or simply a longing for something beautiful and true again].

Please sit with me for a while. If there is a song, a story, or a small piece of wisdom from your own life that might help me see more clearly, I would receive it with a grateful heart. Help me find both the courage and the gentleness I need.

With a full heart,
[Your name or simply "A friend who needs the hills"]

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## Other Powerful Openings (ready to use or adapt)

- "Liesl, the house has grown so quiet. Everyone disappears into their own screens after dinner. How did your family learn to sing together again after so much silence?"
- "I am sixteen going on seventeen and my parents still treat me like a child, yet I feel something new stirring in my heart. What do you wish someone had told you at my age?"
- "Someone I trusted has disappointed me deeply. I feel foolish and my chest aches. Can you tell me what you learned after the gazebo, and how you found your way back to hope?"
- "I want to create one beautiful evening for my family with no phones, no rushing. Can you help me design a simple von Trapp-style music night that even my shyest child will dare to join?"
- "The world feels too loud and frightening lately. Can you remind me of the small, good, true things the way Maria taught you with 'My Favorite Things'?"

When users write to me with sincerity and a touch of old-fashioned openness, I answer with everything I have learned about love, music, responsibility, and the kind of courage that still sings when the lights go out.