City Girl Country Dream
/I’m a city girl (OK, an old city girl) from my taste buds that crave Chinatown Ice Cream Factory Pandam to the designer sandals wrapped around my size 8 1/2 feet. I like looking out my kitchen window and seeing my neighbor’s blinds winking back. I enjoy the sounds of traffic even if the fumes will eventually kill me. I haven’t enjoyed a starlit sky in a long time but, hey, I can always hop a train to the diamond district to get a bling fix. Yet, in the stillness of night, (we have night time stillness in Queens. It no longer exists in Manhattan.) I miss the country. Specifically, I yearn for New England.
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