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FROM OUR INTREPID EXPLORER: Cameo of New York City
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`My parents were immigrants. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm sympathetic towards foreigners." The speaker is a larger-than-life kind of gal, a Big Mama, with cushioned body and loud voice, a noisy extrovert New Yorker. She says people say this public library must be a nice, quiet place to work. "But it's not!" she says. "It's raucous!"
Post 9/11 New York. Mid summer. My big high is sailing in here through the Verrazano Narrows, under the huge bridge, up past the Statue of Liberty with Manhattan's light-spangled, velvet black buildings on the right. It's midnight, so apart from the ...
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