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Tell Me Who I Am : Sometimes it's Safer Not to Know

A book by Alex Lewis, Mark Lewis, Joanna Hodgkin What's It About: "A true story of false memory and lost innocence in one of England's most respectable families Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin. Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had not told you the whole truth about your childhood, your family, and the forces that had shaped you. Why the secrets? Why the silences? You have no choice but to begin again. This has been Alex's reality: a world where memories are just the stories people tell you, where fact and fiction are impossible to distinguish. With dogged courage he has spent years hunting for the truth about his hidden past and his remarkable family. His quest to understand his true identity has revealed shocking betrayals and a secret tragedy, extraordinary triumph over crippling adversity and, above a

Egypt: Day 1

We meet our personal guide, who accompanied us to visit Giza. We visited one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Great Pyramids of Cheops,Chephren and Mykerinus, Famous Sphinx, and Valley temple, Egyptian Museum, Treasure room of king Tutankhamen. Continue to Coptic Cairo to visit the Hanging Church and Ben Ezra Synagogue. Then we continued driving to Islamic Cairo's old bazaar. Egyptian Museum: There are seven sections in the Museum: The first section : Tutankhamon's treasures. The second section : the pre-dynasty and the Old Kingdom monuments. The third section : the first intermediate period and the Middle Kingdom monuments. The forth section : the monuments of the Modern Kingdom. The fifth section : the monuments of the late period and the Greek and Roman periods. The sixth section : coins and papyrus. The seventh section : sarcophagi and scrabs The Egyptian antiquities were really detailed and beautiful. By the, deta

Egypt

Hello!! This easter break, my family and I went to Egypt. We were there for 9 days and it was amazing. Soon, I will start writing what I did on those days.