Sometimes images clearly explain an event. The photograph of a street in Sedaví filled with piled-up cars is one of them. It reflects the devastation perfectly, there is nothing more to add. Other images achieve the opposite effect: they unleash the imagination. I have been absorbed several times looking at the photo of a blackboard in a school in Sedaví. You can see the date written in the upper left corner of the blackboard: October 29, 2024. It is the day that life as they knew it stopped there. It is so true that you can guess the dust under the 9. All of us who went to school with blackboards know that the teachers erased the unit number with their hands and updated the day. Just below you can see a brown line: the mark of the height where the water reached. For a child, that scar represents the jaws of an enormous monster, three or four times its height, marked there, in that corner of the blackboard where only the teacher can reach by extending her arm. Maybe the monster that swallowed his mother or his friend.
Just below the date, a muddy and dirty veil covers almost the entire blackboard, revealing the words that the teacher wrote that fateful morning. They can be guessed but can barely be read. They represent all the words that have changed their meaning in Sedaví, Paiporta, Benetúser, Alfáfar, Picanya, Catarroja, Chiva, Massanassa, Torrent…
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