One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
~ Thomas Wolfe
It took me less than five minutes to become a New Yorker. I looked around and said, Oh! I get it, I'm a New Yorker now. And that was that. Here I am, decades later.
Thanks for this quote to David Beaudouin, a Baltimore poet who's a New Yorker in his heart.