Childhood garden now a bridge
Personal memory by Najia N.
1985 CE • Cairo, Egypt
I miss the beautiful garden in front of my childhood home in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt. They turned it into a bridge and removed the garden. All of my childhood memories were there.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022-2023
Image: Radosław Botev, CC BY 3.0 PL via Wikimedia Commons
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