한국어

After Twenty Years, I Returned Home, But Nothing Had Changed. Not Even the People.

A woman returns to her hometown after twenty years to find everything frozen in time—except herself, or so she thought.

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Only I, standing there with a backpack on my shoulders, had become entirely different.

Everyone greeted me and told me how much my appearance had changed.

But when I looked in the mirror, the same figure from twenty years ago was standing there, unchanged.

3 sentences Translated from Korean
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