I think I am certain this is my earliest memory because I don’t remember anything before it. I knew it is one of my earliest memories because I checked with my parents years later. Because it is the memory of a place I have been once I think I was two years old and it would it be the city of Beirut in Lebanon and that it is where my aunt and uncle lived for many years before they moved to the states, they’ve gone leaving Iraq which is where my aunts, my father and my dad’s sister and brother lived on north of Iraq , I try to think when it would it been, I think around 70’s sometime one aunt and uncle moved to Egypt and the other aunt and uncle moved to Beirut and that’s might be one of the times we were visiting them the reason it is one of my earliest memories it is because it is as far back I can remember to me being that young I have been in a pram the subsequences memories I can feel running around or older definitely I had this sensation not really kind of yet walking although I would be two but just know I was in a pram bound. And it was on this balcony which it was my aunt’s or uncles, the family apartment and as I look out from that memory I am sitting on the balcony on in the pram I can feel this such this it is always amazing trying to figure out what it is your memory and what it is your embellishment to the memory and how much I added as going by but I kind of remember sort of white paint on the balcony, painted white and it was a day time and I can’t remember someone else with me so I just been put out in the balcony just taken the view but I can vaguely remember my cousins behind me kind of sort of I try to remember how old my cousins would been one of them maybe Is six or seven years older than me and the other one maybe 10 years older than me I know my family would it been around and I know, my parents, my brother and my sister, well my sister wouldn’t been born yet. But I can remember staff happening behind me and I was sitting in this pram I can’t remember the city I know we were in Beirut in that apartment because many years later I wrote this memory for my parents and they said yeah yeah you would been in Beirut but I can’t remember the image in front of me wouldn’t be the city? Wouldn’t be down town Beirut? But I can remember somehow myself in the pram I can remember sitting and feeling quiet comfortable and the sense of noise it is really funny I am listening to all this noise kind of other city and it is similar quality that sense of sounds of the city probably I couldn’t see the city because I was tiny and I was in a pram probably the balcony it was too high to me to see and I can’t even remember if it was a balcony there was kind of wall or whether kind of bars. I can’t remember the structure I remember there was a white floor and white doors behind me I really love that memory because it is kind of suspension of a moment and I never been in Beirut since but I love to but when I was around I must be one and half or maybe two and that it is my very first memory I can remember.

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