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Adventures with an unreliable narrator.
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Jun 21 03: there and back again
Okay, it’s really really late but here’s the short version: yes, I pretty much had to go. So I did. And stood in a line half an avenue-block long with hundreds of other New Yorkers—moms and dads and kids and random geeks in bunny slippers or pointed hats or Griffindor scarves—until 2:30 in the morning. Clusters of club kids and other nocturnals drifted past the line: “Dude, you’re doing this for Harry Potter?” Inside the store were a couple of beautiful owls from a local nature center. Their handlers looked amused. Actually, so did we all: good humor was the order of the evening. What were we doing there? We were having a fabulous time. I love this town.
Jeez, this thing is a doorstop.