If there’s a photo you carry away from this, let it be the one nobody took: the view from inside a chain made of hands—a town leaning its weight in the same direction while the water says no and we say not today.
Because on the night the road fell into the river, and in the mornings after, that’s what we were. Not perfect. Not authorized by anything you can laminate. Just there. Together. And for once, in a way that kept the precious thing intact, it was more than enough.
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