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the beauty of downtown Beirut

Posted by finkployd in Photo
Tuesday, July 12. 2005

it is these moments, a couple, in downtown Beirut, surrounded by fanfare, the hustle and bustle of a consumer society, the arabs, the calls to prayer, an absolute hypocrisy of fundamentalism and hedonism...

it is these moments, a couple in love - all alone in the universe - oblivious to this absurdity, that reassure me that Beirut will never be bought.

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