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It was 10:33 p.m. on a Monday night in 2016. I had just received an email saying that my long-awaited queen-sized bed frame from Amazon had arrived and was waiting in the package delivery room directly above my basement-level East Village apartment. I was dead tired after only a few hours of sleep the previous night and about to go [...]
The door to my apartment building is the color of the rough red wine men drink in small towns in Italy. In fact, Mr. Chinnici, who lives in my building, might look at home in a café in a Mediterranean village, drinking claret from a water glass. He wears a sooty, mushroom-colored cap; the whites of his eyes are [...]
