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120 E. 49th, Nyc

Julie, after your passing snow fell on Manhattan. You were not there to share flakes falling fast. silencing the streets, slowing pedestrians on perilous sidewalks, but I, sweet sister Not-of-my-blood, sister of my soul, I was there for you in the city of our hearts.

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Date: 3/25/2009 6:46:00 AM
What a bleak, cold, but touching elegy. The New York venue gives this an especially somber touch. New Yorkers love their city, most, and the somber, for them, is part of the excitement. Love, daver
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