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Saturday, November 10, 2012

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her ex
the cast came off my hand in late june .
a little more than a month later , jonas and i were in new jork .
he was -against his wishes , and against my better judgment  - a  thirty - minute train trip away from new jork  city , spending a few weeks , uncle and two cousins in white plain i agreed  to stay close by . we would spend a day together each week doing something fun .
after checking to see what a hotel would cost for three  weeks in new jork city , i used craigslist to find a sublet in murray hill , only a short walk to grand central . the woman renting her apartment to me insisted i pay for the full month she'd be gone .
my landlord was a woman about my age  named ottavia barbarini .
 her apartment was a tiny - by colorado standards - one bedroom . but iy had a lovely view to the west .ottavia  explained how each year  there were a glorious couple of weeks during which she could look down thirty-ninth  as the sun dropped straight  between the long rows of building before splashing in slow motion into the hudson .
" summer or winter ?" i asked her .

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