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This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The remains of two children, perhaps a boy and a girl, rest beside each other at a mass burial site of Pampa ...

Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, National Geographic Friendship Trees, Yoshino Cherry, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, a writer ...