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A lot of kids, me included, aspire from early on to live in New York because the crushing smallness of their birthplace pains them. They're the town faggot or the town dreamer and they stand in their backyards and look into miles of desolation and quiet, knowing with bitter certainty that nobody—at least nobody they think of as significant—cares about them. They feel trapped in a tiny town beneath a massive sky full of stars, and they know they'll be gone someday.

I was in line at a Duane Reade when the cashier told the customer in front of me, “Have a nice day!” The customer responded with an almost instantaneous, “Don't tell me what to do.” This was admittedly pretty funny, and not a true depiction of the city all the time. This did, however, remind me of the famous graduation speech “Don't forget to wear sunscreen” in which the guy says, “Live in NYC, but leave before it makes you too hard” and “Live in California, but leave before it makes you too soft” Basically, I'd advise you to understand how the city is making you feel, shaping you as a person, and then decide if that's the direction you want to continue towards. If it's not, then it's time to leave NYC.

Happy Mother’s Day to my beautiful and sweet mama! You raised six children, and I still don’t know how you found so much patience, or how you handled so much grocery shopping.

Cape May

These are our farm clothes

The day we marched for #science

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Celebrating our 2nd favorite country 🇯🇵

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David Arnold, Kids of Appetite

"Be courageous, or be complicit." I marched for truth. I marched for those who felt neglected by Washington only to be exploited by a conman. I marched because the way he treats women is NOT OKAY. And all of this is NOT NORMAL. For my country. For too many reasons. Proud of us all today. (at The Mall (Washington DC))

As long as you’re not racist or a bigot, we can find common ground. A lot of these people don’t have time to watch the news. They are working three jobs. I get that the working class is fed up. That’s important to get. When there’s such divisiveness, it’s so ugly. Who wants to f–king fight all the time?

Chelsea Handler, on why she'd never want to interview Trump but would welcome a Trump voter on her show.

A president-elect attacking a hero of the civil rights movement less than a week before he takes the oath of office is not normal.

Michael Gerson

The problem, however, runs deeper. Trump seems to have no feel for, no interest in, the American story he is about to enter. He will lead a nation that accommodated a cruel exception to its founding creed; that bled and nearly died to recover its ideals; and that was only fully redeemed by the courage and moral clarity of the very people it had oppressed. People like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. People like John Lewis.

By the end of the week, Trump will be the president. I wish him the best; I wish him the worst. The dilemma is how to separate loathing for him from love of country. I am leaving it to time to work that out. Meanwhile, Trump will have his moment, that’s for sure, but when things go wrong he will be chased from office — just like Johnson once was. The ancient Greeks knew why: A man’s character is his fate. In that case, Trump’s presidency is doomed.

Richard Cohen

He has done nothing to woo the majority of Americans who rejected his candidacy and has, instead, adhered to his schoolyard habit of tweeting his every grievance, denigrating his every critic, making cameos with vaccine and global-warming doubters... It is a “Gong Show” with no gong in sight.

Richard Cohen

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