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Joan Didion's 1967 essay "Goodbye to All That," about falling in love with New York in her twenties and falling back out by her thirties, has a line about "those of us who came from places... where Wall Street and Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue were not places at all but abstractions," and I know exactly what she means because I came to New York in my twenties from a place where all those streets were just ideas, and I'd add Broadway to the list, because it means "Theater" the way those others mean, per Didion, "'Money' and 'High Fashion' and 'The Hucksters.'"

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