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In the Finnforest, east in Norway, I found this old farm.
Nobody has been here in 35 years, everything left as it was when the last person went out the front door, never to return.

All dreams, hopes, wishes, and all the accumulated little things from a life still are here.

The weather-worn pine planks of the walls will stand up to rain and frost for still some years, then it will slowly return to earth..

Besides the concrete steps chive (wild onions) flourish.
The plants creep in on the building.

One of the rooms in the house had been used for storing textiles, and possibly for drying laundry on rainy days.
Here once was a flyscreen.

In a chair in the living-room the last occupant left some family portraits.
Why didn't he bring them along?
Did he plan to return to retreive them? Why didn't he?
Did he really want to leave his childhood here, slowly collecting dust in the clutter for ever?

Holes in the windows allowed swallows to nest in the house. They have littered the floors, mostly under the windows.
The detergent is still ready, but no laundry was washed.

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