Dear Japan. A Letter to My Home

“I Shine Brighter Now” Photography by Reylia Slaby

Dear Japan,

First, I want to say that I love you. You were the country where I took my first breath. My lungs filled with your air, and from there I was home. My first tears happened in your hospitals. My cries echoed throughout the hallway and took me throughout my childhood, becoming laughter, then to tears and back again.