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“It wasn't that easy to leave your established home, the place made sacred by the graves of your parents, and move on to who knew where.”

Home Childhood Nostalgia Village Migration

Book:Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

Source: Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“Oh don't torture my heart! I'll die of sadness in one week there. Living among strangers! How can you transplant an old tree?”

Home Rootedness Eminent Domain Rooted Values

Book:Farewell to Matyora

Source: Farewell to Matyora

“Let them drown me, if that's what they want. Let them. You die once. What's there to be afraid of?”

Home Evacuation Eminent Domain

Book:Farewell to Matyora

Source: Farewell to Matyora

“Everything that just recently had seemed eternal and solid as rock was so quickly turned into rack and ruin you just wanted to shut your eyes and forget.”

Home Homelessness Eminent Domain

Book:Farewell to Matyora

Source: Farewell to Matyora

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