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But some days I think I’ll scream or die if I have to keep this secret any longer.”
The Long Game
Rachel Reid
Russi was typical of traffic agents in New York, and elsewhere: the work was no longer as gendered as it had once been, but the people who ticketed cars in big cities were often black or Hispanic. (The police force, by contrast, was mostly white—and lived mostly in Staten Island and the suburbs, compared with parking enforcers, who lived mostly in the city.)
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.
The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest
newyorker.com
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