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Dexameni Square
Dexameni Square is the kind of place where the morning never quite ends. A woman in patterned trousers strolls across the shade toward the café tables. An old yellow payphone stands by the path, still waiting for its last call. At one table, a white-bearded man talks into his mobile as if closing a deal. Behind the bar, a young barman reaches past the ouzo bottles, and on the wall a joke sign reads: kindergarten, bar, nursing home.