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Why I Broke Up with New York
It took me years to understand that most people accept New York’s mayhem as some kind of toll, a small price to pay for the panoply of delights available to them at a moment’s notice—whoever said “Nothing good ever happens after midnight” has never lived in New York. But anyone who has ever fallen in love with the city knows that they will accept
... See moreI have always lived in the myth of New York more than in its reality. It is what enabled me to live there for so long, loving the idea of something more than the thing itself.