New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.
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Class Country Dollars
Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: “Open Bar.”
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Drawn Feelings Sweet Two
Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
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Caviar Chilled Consistency Pressed
They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.
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Fishing Lakes Sea
There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one’s head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.
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Feelings Fire Lovely
New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.
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Cities Country Reading
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
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Fleeing Grown Men Reading

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