What is broken is broken, and I would rather remember it as it in its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

一样东西破碎了就是破碎了，我宁愿记得它完好时的样子，而不是把它粘好，然后一辈子看着那些破碎的地方。

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Walking to school in 1980s Tehran amid slogans sprayed on walls and billboards, I remember this early belief, or rather, a child's sense of what would eventually become a belief: We all want to prove we exist.

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