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Painting by Felix Mao from Rye Country Day School, New York, USA Painting by Felix Mao from Rye Country Day School, New York, USA

Drawn by Cici Cui from Bellevue Christian School, Washington, USA Drawn by Cici Cui from Bellevue Christian School, Washington, USA

Written by Xiangxuan Wang from the International Department of Chengdu Shude High School, China The world remembers people in quiet, strange ways. Some by photographs pressed between old books. Some by voices sealed in forgotten recordings. I remember my mother by a scent that lingered long after she left the room. It clung to sun-warmed cotton swaying on the line, lavender and old soap still holding the warmth of her hands. Every evening she washed away more than dust. The k

Written by Katherine Wu Seven Lakes High School, Texas, USA Humming low, a hymn of wings and buzzing bodies. Dungeness crabs scuttle like restless mourners in silent prayer. The mud smells of salt and something older, brine and decay braided together, an inheritance carried by tides. Grass stalks bow under the weight of wind, whispering secrets to the water. This place knows how to hold loss, how to fold it gently into sediment until grief becomes silt, soft enoug