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"YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE".

The New Yorker

| July 24, 2006 | Marx, Patricia | COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Come to my neighborhood--the Upper East Side of Manhattan--any weekend this summer and you might think that the neutron bomb had been dropped. The streets are so empty that I have sometimes toyed with the idea of buying a car just so that I can get a parking space. Where is everyone? And why am I not there? They are in the Hamptons or Northeast Harbor or Tuscany, or perhaps they are stuck in a car or an airport trying to get to one of those places. I am not in their company because New York minus New Yorkers and their cars is an exceedingly joyous town. Also, I don't own a second house. Or a first house, but that's beside the point.

Do not feel sorry for me, ...

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