Tag: New York City
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Ah, New York!
In this cloistered age of Covid, I sleep until noon. The best dreams happen in the morning just before waking. Today I had the most marvelous dream.
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Four bullets from a madman’s gun
Remembering John Lennon — A psycho fired four bullets into the body of the former Beatle on this day in 1980 and killed a legend.
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Python of pure sex
He had no money and no credit but he had girlfriends, and when he was cleaned up he phoned one of them collect in Los Angeles.
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Loneliness, a beginning
He travelled a long way to get here. Ten thousand miles on a cargo ship. He was twenty years old. He waved goodbye to his mother and his friends on the dock.
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The Art of Homelessness
NEW YORK—Rainbow Johnson lived in a room in the Cavalier Hotel on 34th Street. The bathroom was down the hall. He had a hot plate for boiling water for coffee. He ate his meals in the coffee shop downstairs. Before moving into the Cavalier Hotel, he was homeless in several cities across America. He was…
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Me, Sue and Blue
I don’t know which was worse: losing my girl or my white‐over‐blue Monte Carlo. My friends in the Midwest had warned me about New York. “You’re crazy going there without job,” they said. “New York will chew you up and spit you out.”
Mary Saves the Day 