Several of Xinran's interviewees tell her not just that the young do not know about the past, but they do not particularly want to know.

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They do not want to forget the past.

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In both places, signs of the storm can still be found, and I do not in any way want to downplay the trauma to residents, past and current.

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Second, we do not want a democratic Egypt to be saddled by the debts of its past.

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And even more undoubtedly, given the bedlam of the past two Election Days, they do not want to get it wrong.

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