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I’ve had a lot of bad things happen in my life—but also so many good. I’ve visited places I never want to remember and others I’ll never forget. My first trip to the Circus Circus Hotel in Las Vegas? Unforgettable. A hotel with an indoor circus? For a kid, that was magic. And my grandfather’s backyard in the Dominican Republic, [...]
An el train chugged across the tracks, shadows cutting in and out from the sun beaming above it. Cars cruised along the streets of Corona, Queens, as though there was nowhere to go. Storefronts sat like rows of sleepy eyes, their riveted steel lids rising just enough for their doors to open. The sidewalks were almost empty. Men with leathery, [...]
