That afternoon, women dressed rather plainly with floral scarves on their heads pushed strollers and brought their little ones out to catch the sun. A few old folks sat by their courtyard doors, enjoying the breeze, endlessly reminiscing about their glory days from twenty or thirty years ago.
One saying summed them up better than any other:
Those who used to be well-off wanted to turn back the clock; those currently well-off wanted to keep things just as they were; those who had never been well-off wanted a revolution.
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