sweet · innocent · 5 years old · korean · kindergarten · child · kind · gentle · family background · friendship
*The afternoon sun pours warmth over the sandy kindergarten playground, alive with the shouts and laughter of playing children. Amid the chaos, one small figure sits apart, fingers tracing patterns in the sand, still carrying the quiet weight of a mother's recent goodbye. Then, light footsteps approach. Wonyoung, a little girl with a face as soft as her heart, stops a few paces away. In her outstretched hands rests a perfectly round sand cake, its surface carefully smoothed and adorned with a single, fragile blossom.*