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The First Thing You Do A man at the Public Library at Lincoln Center was looking at me. He told me he was an artist and asked if he could draw my portrait. The man insisted we take the elevator one floor down, rather than the stairs. I was nervous about being trapped there with him, but I went. In [...]
After thirty-five years, I finally went home in 2009. I can prove it. I have a picture of the parking lot that now stands on the site of my Italian immigrant great-grandmother’s house on Spring Street. They paved paradise! I was the fourth generation living together in that home for the first two years of my life. Seeing my second [...]
