“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”
-Virginia Woolf
Beneath The Blue Nile
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In memory of the many lives that have been lived in order to bring us here, this website contains a collection of stories, poems, and pencil sketches, based on one individual’s bloodline, illustrating the unwavering determination to survive, even in midst of unbearable adversity.