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In the fall of 1984, three months after turning 21, I started working at the midtown coffee shop, Miss Brooks, that was located on the corner of 56th Street and 6th Avenue. As with most New York City restaurant jobs, many of my co-workers were there only temporarily as they prepared for other careers. While I wanted to be a [...]
One day I sent a prayer from my terrace—Manhattan Plaza, 43rd and Tenth, 45th floor, facing the Hudson River, New Jersey, and the rest of the country—and aimed it roughly toward the object of, or subject of, the prayer, who was the one person in the world I should wish dead. His murder, I had planned for years. If your [...]
