Tag: travel
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That’s what I thought as I waited for the F train. It wasn’t because I saw a rat skitter across the subway tracks or the fact that my rental turned out to be across the street from the projects (the neighborhood was perfectly safe). No, it was the trio of high school kids performing on…
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The stomach is for fear and panic, excitement, too. The heart isn’t immediate enough. It takes things a while to filter through to it. And it’s too imprecise, too messy, too amorphous a spot to locate such sharp feelings. No, it’s the lungs, I’ve decided. That quick stab when you’re standing in line at Starbucks…
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Photo by Thomas Hawk “This is for you?” A voice behind me and I nearly jump three feet. A young Italian waiter holding a pizza box on his way through the connecting lobby between his ristorante, my hotel and the other pensione next door. I told him it wasn’t. He picked up on my accent…