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When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

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Sloane Crosley
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 3
Essayist
Journalist
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Writer
New York City
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It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.
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