This is a photograph from July, 1979. At this time:
- Aziza was three months old.
- We lived on Ahmed Sukarno Street in a Cairo slum where the raw sewage never dried up on the street (this has since changed). The photo was taken at home.
- Mom was still fighting to keep her business venture, Allied Resource and Consulting Services (ARCS) afloat, so we could hardly afford to live in a decent neighborhood.
- Janet came to visit us for several months with her friend Beth, after they ran a marathon in Athens. Their toenails had fallen off.
- I was eight (I turned 9 in October).
- We had one dog and nine cats (mom's friend's cat who was "temporarily" staying with us turned out not to be spayed). Mom was severely allergic to cats.
- My favorite article of clothing was a tee-shirt mom had a friend of hers bring for me from Mothercare, UK at great personal expense to her at her poorest. The tee-shirt had a photograph of a leopard sleeping on a tree branch.
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