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I learned what it’s like to undeniably feel so connected to something I had no desire to appreciate in the first place.

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I am a twenty-something writer who lives alone in Manhattan, in a dream apartment with a doorman and even a walk-in closet. But unlike Carrie Bradshaw, I left my Mr. Big for good.

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I didn’t matter here either, or any of my worries. I was just a girl walking down the street.

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According to Nixon, “the use of marijuana has effectively been legal” for white people for a long time.

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That’s right, we’re not going to see much more of Carrie, Samantha, or Charlotte, but get read to see a lot more of Miranda — well, Cynthia Nixon.

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There are hard things going on in the world—dancing around us, dancing around inside of us. There are the bad things and there are the good things.

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Your rent is cheaper in New York. Your shower is smaller in Los Angeles. If you close your eyes and your banking app, you can’t tell which one you’re in anymore.

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I love New York, but I don’t want a New York kind of love.

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You never wanted to live in Los Angeles. I never wanted to live in New York. There we were, standing on two different ends of the country unwilling to find common ground.

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After spending much of my life off and on New York’s mean streets, I’ve decided to break up with New York.