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UWS Encounters: Hidden Assets

April 18, 2020 | 10:07 AM - Updated on April 19, 2020 | 3:33 AM
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Iconic Emptiness. Photograph by Dan Tanner.

“What I miss though, most of all”

Can’t get flour or yeast
Or even toilet tissue.
But shortages of goods
Are not at all my issue.

Masks, long lines, no films,
I can endure these trials.
What I miss though, most of all,
Is seeing people’s smiles.

😷😊.

— Laura R Fliegner

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Dedicated to long-time Upper West Sider Dr. Barbara Bulow.

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Marion Harris
Marion Harris
5 years ago

I’m retired and miss my new found ability to casually make plans to see retired friends, after so many years of no time to see them when I was working. Oh the irony.

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Mike scott
Mike scott
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That’s so true!

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