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I, too, love my city even though I currently have to love it from a distance. I think it was James Simon Kunen who wrote that if you’ve ever lived in New York City, you’ll always walk with pavement under your shoes, or something like that.

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I found the quote:

“Once you live in New York, you are locked in the city and the city is locked in you. On the beach or in the woods the click-clack follows you, and you carry pavement beneath your feet.”

- The Strawberry Statement, page 12.

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Exactly and I also now love it from a distance.

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