This side of the street is lined with beautiful houses made of limestone. The courtyards that lead to white and bottle-green wrought-iron front doors are large and filled with palm and fern trees, their foliage leaning over the walls and creating pockets of shade on the street. High green, black and white gates mark the entrance to each house. No more than four metres across from the gates stands the Wall, cutting the once wide street into half. The only view the houses have on this side is a dark assembly of vertical concrete panels that tower eight metres high. A circular watchtower stands at one section of the Wall and it aligns with the last house in the street. The watchtower has three rectangular slits positioned one on top of each other, slanting eyes in a face of grey. With the road split in half, there is no street name visible on this side of the Wall. Perhaps it is on the other side. The name and named are now divorced. Samy pauses before one of the houses, fascinated by a tall tree he has spotted.
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