Stone Soup

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My Mother’s Suffering

Aya-Bashir-Al-Mohammad
Aya Bashir Al-Mohammad, student at MAPs’ Al-Rahma Teaching Center; 11; from Aleppo, Syria; current location Bekaa Valley Lebanon; medium-watercolor