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Riding the ferry
Friday, October 17, 2003
At the end of the 1960s, my wife and I -- both true-blue Missourians -- moved to New York City. We might as well have moved to Hong Kong or London. We were two naive Midwesterners adrift in a polyglot sea where fellow castaways neither sounded nor looked like us.
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