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How to process the loss of childhood landscapes

I moved back to my hometown after ten years and the lake where I learned to swim is now a toxic algae bloom that kills dogs.

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The destruction of formative places severs the connection between past and present self, leaving identity untethered from the landscapes that shaped it.

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