You go away, & every day see something or someone new, you try a food (hello, fårikål, national dish of Norway!), you breathe Scandinavian air & wallow in stripey northern light. And then you sit in semi-darkness for a few hours & it is as though you never left. You are sitting at your own desk, typing on your same computer, looking up at the cloud calendar for September just like you did on Labor Day. No one thinks you look different, even though your mouth has been saying different sounds & words for a week. Hello, New York, I guess you didn't miss me, but that's the great thing, that it's the city that welcomes you whether you go away or stay home.
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