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- <p><span class="drop">N</span>ew York, New York. John F Kennedy airport 1 am date unknown, sleepy looking customs guard stamps a passport without hardly looking at, without even checking to see where I had been. A light drizzle is falling outside and the subways extension to the terminal never looked so good. Concrete hiss of tires, parabolic freeway ramps, a moth trapped inside an airport bus, the sodium yellow glow of subway lights, the gentle rocking of a train car, the green boarded fronts of a sixth avenue newsstand, shoes still leaking, still tired and still not looking back.</p>
-<p>Just off Bleeker, around the corner from Minetta where I once lived for a few weeks, there is a small coffee shop totally unremarkable in nearly every way save one distinguishing characteristic that drew me to it initially and draws me to it still &mdash; it doesn&#8217;t close. Faced with a thirty six hour layover and nowhere near the cash to pay for a hotel (don&#8217;t even ask about the credit cards) I figured good old Esperanta cafe was the ideal sort of place to spend the night.</p>
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-<p>I would like to say that I got off the plane ready to kiss the ground and mumble something about home at last, thank god home at last, but that isn&#8217;t how I felt and isn&#8217;t what I did. soon after I arrived in Los Angeles to see my family, friends started to email and call, which was wonderful, except that nearly everyone asked what it was like to be back. </p>
-<p>I&#8217;ve had three months to ponder that question now and I still don&#8217;t have a definitive answer, which is at least partly my own fault because I&#8217;ve never asked exactly what you mean when you ask that question. Sometimes people ask that as a sort of loaded question, some people seemed to be waiting for me to bad mouth America. </p>
-<p>So let&#8217;s start there. I could say a million bad things about America, but the truth is people, things are no better anywhere else, like Tom Wait&#8217;s said &#8220;I know I know, things is tough all over.&#8221; There are things America does better than the rest of the world and there are things we could do so much better. </p>
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