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The night before I left Massachusetts, it stormed: crashing thunder, brilliant lightning, wind, and eventually, rain. I lay beside an...

I have arrived in New York, Rockland County, some 20 miles north of Manhattan. Here, I am helping my friend, B, pack away the effects of...