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Can you recall the experience of waking up for the first time in a new city? Your senses are filled with sights and sounds that you couldn’t easily relay to someone, not without a lot of poetic talent, yet they’re as real to you as a block of wood? You know how you never quite forget those sights and sounds? If you wake up in this city again, even twenty years later, your senses awaken all those memories you didn’t think you had in you anymore.

Can you recall the experience of waking up for the first time in a new city? Your senses are filled with sights and sounds that you couldn’t easily relay to someone, not without a lot of poetic talent, yet they’re as real to you as a block of wood? You know how you never quite forget those sights and sounds? If you wake up in this city again, even twenty years later, your senses awaken all those memories you didn’t think you had in you anymore. I was born in a country that does not exist today. I was only a child, but I still remember the world of doublespeak and tyranny, the world of budding

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