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Sep 22, 2009 19:33

Climbing onto the crowded bus home this weekend I was jostled and pushed up against the bodies of strangers. The smell of 8 hour shifts and odd foreign foods, noted with rotting sweet and cheap knockoff perfumes suffocated and coated my mouth and nostrils, causing me to spin. Luckily I was one of the very few to clutch what fingers' reach I had of ( Read more... )

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dabroots September 22 2009, 23:45:13 UTC
That's a great story. I lived in New York for about seventeen years, first when I was quite young, in the early 1980s, and again when I was becoming middle-aged in the mid-1990s and until only three years ago ( ... )

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hematomaalice September 22 2009, 23:49:22 UTC
=;) That made me smile, and feel less estranged from expelling this memory from my person.

I feel experiences like these never existed for me back home, mostly because of the lack of such a dense population. I am happy to hear you've been in a similar situation.

Moments like these make me appreciate moving to this city alone.

Thank you again.

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dabroots September 23 2009, 00:32:54 UTC
And be grateful that the subways are air conditioned, which they weren't until about twenty years ago. You wouldn't believe the smells, and the sweat dripping into your eyes after a long day at work, being so packed in with other human beasts that you couldn't reach up and wipe it away.

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clear_twilight September 23 2009, 02:16:36 UTC
that was so precious ^^

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hematomaalice September 23 2009, 02:26:00 UTC
かきゅう!!!
ありがとうね!元気ですか?

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clear_twilight September 23 2009, 02:35:37 UTC
元気元気! あなた は? お久し振り ですね? :3

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How the hell are you!! mainman666 September 23 2009, 04:48:39 UTC
LOL dam fonts!!! well nice to see something about you lately
Your pictures are awesome. check me out on MM #1353760
my pictures are doing amazingly well. and I have allot of shoots coming up :)bands\clubs\and models... ;) oh my...

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Re: How the hell are you!! hematomaalice September 23 2009, 04:51:47 UTC
Noel!!!
Holy shit! How are you, Man?
Good to see you up and at it?
How's the fam?

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Re: How the hell are you!! mainman666 September 23 2009, 04:55:31 UTC
Doing well everything is freakin fine and having fun=D
We should talk more :( miss you and well um sticky rice...LOL
I would give you a hour hug seriously!! :P

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Re: How the hell are you!! mainman666 September 23 2009, 04:56:49 UTC
that's stupid lol i guess i got logged out :P

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