The Summer That Changed Everything
📍 Leipzig, Germany · 👤 Story by Jonas
It was the summer the city stopped sleeping. The nights never cooled down. I remember lying awake and realising this was not a freak year — it was the new shape of things. That was the summer everything changed for me.
- Youth
- Climate anxiety
- Heatwaves
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