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New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

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I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

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From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza...more

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The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over al...more