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The Lost Photograph — short story

Mrs. Park finds an old photograph and reunites a family with a treasured memory of their grandfather.

When Mrs. Park moved into her new apartment, she found a photograph behind a cabinet. It showed a young man in a soldier's uniform, smiling. On the back, someone had written a name and a date. Mrs. Park asked her neighbors about the man, but nobody knew him. She decided to find his family. She spent months searching old records and archives. One day, a woman called her. The photograph, she said, was of her grandfather, who had died during the war. She had been looking for that picture for years. When Mrs. Park handed it over, the woman cried. The forgotten photograph had finally come home.

This piece is graded at CEFR level B1, it belongs to story.

عکس گمشده

وقتی خانم پارک به آپارتمان جدیدش نقل مکان کرد، یه عکس پشت یه کمد پیدا کرد. مرد جوانی رو با لباس سربازی نشون می‌داد که لبخند می‌زد. پشت عکس، کسی یه اسم و یه تاریخ نوشته بود. خانم پارک از همسایه‌ها درباره مرد پرسید، ولی هیچ‌کس اون رو نمی‌شناخت. تصمیم گرفت خانواده‌ش رو پیدا کنه. ماه‌ها توی آرشیو شهر دنبال سوابق قدیمی گشت. یک روز، زنی باهاش تماس گرفت. گفت عکس، عکس پدربزرگشه که توی جنگ مرده بود. سال‌ها بود دنبال اون عکس می‌گشت. وقتی خانم پارک عکس رو تحویل داد، زن گریه کرد. عکس فراموش‌شده بالاخره به خونه برگشته بود.

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