"After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a..." - Quote by Ray Bradbury
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
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