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- In the gardens, there were little goats, while pigeons nested on the terraces. But there were also chickens in the gardens, and I quickly learned how to tell if they had laid an egg. They had to be isolated, and a sort of stocking had to be placed around their beaks; otherwise, they would peck at the freshly laid egg. It was a simple, orderly world—many people rode bicycles. There were four or five families of major merchants and small industrialists, then a middle class, and finally a very poor population that lived near the cemetery, in the area known as 'dei Censi.' (en)
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