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Manhattan Thoughts on a Hot Evening

Manhattan Thoughts on a Hot Evening

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May 31, 2013
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Tonight I stopped by the bank after work. I was all alone in the vast lobby, except for a long wall of ATMs and one young woman in a cheap but pretty dress. As I fed my card and got my cash I realized she'd stepped back from the machine and had started crying. By the time I left she was sobbing, but her back was to me, and the body language said to this…

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