frozenkinmap
/ˈfrəʊznˌkɪnmæp/nounVerified NewA diaspora elder's mental map of the homeland, fixed near the year of departure and updated only in fragments.
Questions arrive about neighbours who left forty years ago, streets that were renamed twice, and a cinema that is now a phone shop. The map was accurate once, and loyalty keeps it from being revised.
Etym. — frozen + kin + map: affection as cartographic freeze-frame.
Rel. — gentlefog · amberatlas
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