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But you do have comrades, whom
you notice on the subway perhaps,
who may even be "friends" in some way,
who know the toughness and the tragedy
and (to me above all) the sense of loneness
that New York does, I agree, insist
we deal with, and if there is a triumph
to be had, it’s that we’ve managed to stay
here – and consists mostly in what we have
done to be able to stay here and - this
struck me as something very true in you –
to know that were we to have to leave
we would miss it inconsolably: to know
that we would never have anything
elsewhere like the lives we have here.
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