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The Children Who Never Came Home
I learned this morning that I may be living among remnants left by the children who followed the Pied Piper and disappeared forever. The streets I walk each day in Brașov, the walls, the churches, the heavy thirteenth-century stone— all of it was built meticulously by people who arrived from Germany. The Eastern Migration brought the Saxons who settled in Transylvania, and many of them were wooed by recruiters who visited towns like Hamlein. The truth is, we do not know what

Jillian Aurora
Dec 30, 20254 min read
Where memory, meaning, and magic simmer
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