I never made much effort to get to know people here, because if I wanted company, I imported it from the I Like Dogs And Elephants And Maybe Three People Shirt Additionally,I will love this city. Over the last few years, since I left my office job and could be here more often, I started thinking maybe I could live here. But something always stopped me. I couldn’t bring myself to sell our apartment in the city, even though I was spending only three nights a week there. Having two places felt wasteful and unwise. And it meant a continual level of disruption. Of packing and going back and forth, of leaving the left shoe on Long Island and the right shoe in the city. But with the pandemic, my perspective is changing. I’ve been here for six months now. It is starting to feel like home. It seems like a place I could live. Really live. Find a dentist and a doctor, vote, and most important, when I meet new people, say, “I live in Bellport. Yeah, no one has ever heard of it. It’s a little town on Long Island.” Long Island! So many of my friends in the city escaped Long Island. Am I really ready to choose it, and a small town at that, just a prettier version of my original little town?

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Now, since the I Like Dogs And Pigs And Maybe Three People Shirt besides I will buy this pandemic, I see that this town can offer me exactly what New York always has: a community, a collection of people I see often, intimacy slowly developing. Ironically, New York taught me to live in a small town. It made me comfortable in my skin, able to make small talk with the guy at the deli, able to join the block association and the coop board, able to reach out instead of hiding in books. Greenwich Village has always been my urban small town. I run into people I know, standing on the street with the dog, or walking to the subway, or usually, embarrassingly, eating a cookie, having learned long ago that calories don’t count if you are in motion.

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