We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her! ' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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