"If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet." Matthew 10:14
"On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy. It is this largess that accounts for the presence within the city's walls of a considerable section of the population; for the residents of Manhattan are to a large extent strangers who have pulled up stakes somewhere and come to town, seeking sanctuary or fulfillment or some greater or lesser grail. The capacity to make such dubious gifts is a mysterious quality of New York. It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill them, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky."
E.B. White
Maybe its because my lover and I have been two ships passing in the dark night. Maybe it was because my first day off this week lent itself to an academy award nominated double feature and a Chinatown heaping bowl of bean spouts and hot peppered broth. Or maybe it was just the necessary task of walking underneath the hot sparks shower of metal on metal of the elevated train track overhead. But walking side by side as we turned up our collars and pulled down our wool caps, past the snow smothered piles of weeks old garbage, we independently spoke our shared infatuation and agreed, we aren't ready to leave...
When is the last time you fell so ridiculously in love?
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