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I said I was trying to illuminate where New York and Florence still were themselves even as they faded from recognizable forms.
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And now a year after Florence died and New York continued in its odd way and the home I grew up in now looks like a nice apartment for other people we never were, there are places still here and there, still persistently themselves ....
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....that I go to to feel at home.
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