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...many victims of the burnout, the healing will take a long time. Most had lost not only the practical hard goods of existence but the small, irreplaceable mementos and icons of a lifetime. Inez Nichols had recently installed new carpeting and bathroom appliances in the home she and her late husband had bought 27 years ago, but knew she would miss most poignantly what had been the only existing pictures of her mother and spouse. Nadine Fosky, 22, "lost, quite simply, everything." Clothes. School papers. Her special Buddhist chanting scroll. She anguished over it all -- even over the very special...
...remember liking my body and not being ashamed of it. I remember liking boys and not feeling inhibited. I never played little games; if I liked a boy, I'd confront him. I've always been that way. Maybe it comes from having older brothers and sharing the bathroom with them or whatever. But when you're that aggressive in junior high, the boys get the wrong impression of you. They mistake your forwardness for sexual promiscuity. Then when they don't get what they think they're going to get, they turn on you. I went through this whole...
...only by filth and disorder. Mountains of old newspapers, brittle with age, spread in an ever-widening semicircle on the floor around his bed ... [mixed with] rolls of blueprints, maps, TV Guides, aviation magazines, and various unidentifiable objects. A narrow path had been cleared from his bed to the bathroom, but the tide of trash overran even that, topped off by numberless wads of used Kleenex1
...Also, there's a little problem with the other people on the floor." Ronis added "I'm requesting that people don't leave their rooms or go to the bathroom during the half hour that the play runs each evening. It would be distracting to the audience...
...system that runs like 18 miles or whatever it runs now (60 miles) and was paid for basically by the Federal Government. We have a system that is 77 years old or more, that has 750 miles of track. You can't compare them. You don't even have bathrooms in your subways. They purposely took them out. It was a crime-control operation. But if you want to go to the bathroom, you have to go and ask a manager if you can use his." Anyone who has been in a New York subway bathroom knows that...