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Even after three hundred maps have been handed out, Ama and I still melt the moment people switch from being suspicious that we want to sell them something--" Hey? What do you want? Money? Directions?--to realising that we just want to know their stories, their memories, what they love--" Oh, in that case, thanks, sweeties!Becky Cooper
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And yet, there will always be something essentially elsewhere about New York. It is a place that people come to precisely because it doesn't ever fully offer itself. It's intoxicating. Keeps you on your toes. Keeps you drinking coffee and keeps you walking.Becky Cooper
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Part of why I love New York so deeply is exactly this elusiveness. This refusal to be caught is what allows it to carry such fantasy, mystery and myth, yet also be home. It is simultaneously no one's city and everyone's city.Becky Cooper