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I just made it from 50th and Lexington all the way to 4th Avenue and 9th in thirty minutes, can you believe that?
said the Cheery Old Guy who tapped me on the elbow to share his good fortune in the supermarket yesterday. (Things got a little less cheery when he started talking about Iwo Jima, but the guy needed to talk and I had an ear, so there we were.)