Once green and blue riverbed
Personal memory by C. L.
2022 CE • Korea
My mother's hometown once had a long flourishing river running through the area. It's all but dried up now, and the once green and blue riverbed is dull, dry, brown, and lifeless. Every time we pass by the river, my grandma comments on how much she misses it.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022
Image: "Nagyman"/Craig Nagy, Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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