Adult Category, Finalist “I want to be an architect after I graduate." That’s what Ruo remembered saying before the beatings came.  His father was furious. “Have the Japanese bastards gotten into your head!” The next morning, his father took him on a six-hour trek to the port of Kīrun. They walked from the city all the way to the water, even passing a man without a uniform riding a bicycle. “He bought that with blood money,” his father muttered and said nothing more. When…

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