“Moving On”. 2011, weeks after my wedding, I flew home to see my Dad. Little did I know at the time, he only had two weeks left. Cross the hustling street from the old hospital my dad spend his remaining time, was a big lot that was still under constructions. The photo of the old woman. The peeling of this old art installation. The expression on her face. The new high rise apartment buildings in the background. All of these reminded me of my father dying, and me starting a new family in the U.S. A day after I took this photo, my father passed. Location: Shanghai, China. (Photo and caption by Xiaoru Xu/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)
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