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When the Party

When the Party's Over

The city well matured in pain and bruised by history, survives on a stockpile of promises in hope of making an unmakeable dream by boarding a horseless carriage...
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The city well matured in pain and bruised by history, survives on a stockpile of promises in hope of making an unmakeable dream by boarding a horseless carriage of the European elite. Its unfixable destiny preconditioned a whole generation to the disappointments of life and left it to search for happy endings in a scenography of doubt. Undeterred by the odds, the spirit of hope finds a way through like a fragile flower would in the crack of a security wall.
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Canon PowerShot S90

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Aperture f/2.0 ISO 250 Shutter 1/15

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Oct, 2013

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