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"And I don't have time to argue with the laundromat
owner because I've only just returned from a trip,
having realized that it broke my heart to leave the
city. Or really that it broke whatever wasn't broken in
the city already. I would explain to him about getting
back to the city, about having to find you, except that
I think sometimes we have to edit our reasons for
things. This becomes another scene depicting a dramatic
return: I get back to this very broken city and I'll go
out to find you. I will find you at a public monument, I
will find you on a vast flight of cracked concrete
stairs, tumbling apart." —Kyle Buckley, Laundromat
Essay