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Florence from Memory

Close-up of a craftsman’s hands shaping wood with a drawknife, surrounded by fresh shavings.

Florence lingers like a half-remembered dream - stone and shadow, beauty and burden. It’s not the city that changed, but the eyes that see it. Memory edits, distills, betrays. What was once sacred becomes spectral. In tracing old steps, we find not the past, but the echo of who we were when we first arrived.