Closer to us than to her own pyramids
We picture her against the backdrop of the pyramids, as if she watched them rise. She did not. By the time she was born, those monuments were already so old that the distance between her and their builders is greater than the distance between her and an event within living memory. Today's secret is which modern moment she was, in fact, closer to.
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