# @science on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DTQkyHWkzvx
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38651279-science-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-08T18:00:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Science 🧬 (@science) — https://gondola.cc/science

## Caption

A gesture that began with a single light six years ago has become a nightly display along the Providence River — and a highly anticipated ritual — inside Hasbro Children’s Hospital.⁠
‘‘It’s special to know that people I don’t even know will take the time’’ to flash the lights, said 13-year-old Olivia Stephenson, who has been admitted to the hospital three times since June, most recently last week.⁠
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To thank the invisible strangers shining their lights at her and fellow patients, she blinks her flashlight back toward the downtown skyline, using a two-flash response that means ‘‘thank you.’’⁠
‘‘They don’t know me; they could skip the step of flicking the lights, but they do it anyway,’’ she said after seeing the Good Night Lights display for the first time in late August. ‘‘I hope they saw the thank you.’’⁠
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Some of Providence’s bigger hotels have installed permanent signals that automatically turn on flashy messages at 8:30 PM, to the delight of giddy toddlers and older children who can spot them from their windows.⁠
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#gesture #children #kids #hospital #medicine #science #goodnews⁠

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