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Mary Shanley makes friends with a legitimate businessman in Little Italy and accidentally intrudes on some after hours activity.
The writer asks: how should a writer look at literary events? (IS THAT A PUN?)
When I decided to move to the United States for college, I traded my relatively calm and peaceful life in a decidedly “dangerous” country for a different, perhaps more potent danger that haunted me day and night: being a target because of the color of my skin.
Despite my eagerness to come to New York, I was disillusioned my first few months living there. I spent more time in my room than out on the streets I had so romanticized, and which always seemed to disappoint with their dirty pavements. But I’m growing to love New York for what it is rather than for my fantasized idea of it.
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