Stone Soup

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Anonymous, 13, Syria

The girl who drew this witnessed the scene. There is a burning hospital in the upper-right. A mother is crying for her son in the lower left. The child in the bottom center was eating a candy bar when a bomb blew his head off. He remained standing for a few moments with the candy bar in his hand.Topic for this session: Dealing with loss.