Fortunes of a Dead Mountain Village

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The headlines read, “Mountain village sells homes for One Euro”, and “No Young left in Old Mountain Village”. Time and time again, I have read such articles and understood that in these modern times, these age-old abodes of humanity are doomed to fade away into oblivion — consigned to the dusty pages of history books. They have nothing to offer the young, they no longer have a purpose for the old, and there is no space left…