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Monument
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34 Monument Being able to forget will be Kyiv’s only monument to war. —P. Bezimya A thin boy stands at the ravine of Babyn Yar, like a monument. He is long black hair. He is not a monument, but soft and new as independence. If he were bronzed, his plaque would read: 33,771– a specific number of people, a systematic kind of gunfire. The thin boy stands at the ravine of Babyn Yar, like a monument. He is long shag coat, but this is not Babyn Yar. The boy, my guide, has gotten lost in the music of his headphones. This ravine is a monument to nothing but ravines. ...