Before I wrote my slice, before I splurged and took a cab home from Brooklyn Heights …
before I stood in the cold on a windy Montague street laughing with Mercedes and hugging her goodbye …
before I rode the R train from SoHo to Brooklyn …
before Mercedes and I ate lukewarm-but-still-delicious asparagus soup and sandwiches in an Italian place I never saw before on Lafayette …
before I found Mercedes waiting for me in the REI on Houston where she had just bought new hiking boots for her coming-this-summer trip to Machu Picchu …
before I walked up Broadway from Prince Street marveling at how all the stores seemed to sell the exactly same clothes and that all of them seemed to think the world is peopled by young white women planning for Coachella …
before I ran into a co-worker with her mom on the train …
before I stepped outside and realized trusting the weatherman was going to leave me shivering all night …
before putting on my coat and leaving the office …
I looked at the clock and realized it was time to head to SoHo to meet up with one of the dearest people I know, my beloved sister-from-another-mister, Mercedes, who is in town from Mexico for just a few days!!
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So descriptive and even mysterious! It’s been forever since I’ve traveled and you let me glimpse being away from home so well! Excellent slice. Hope you enjoyed your time together. Seems like it!
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