7/7/2004: New York is like...

...a 3-day love affair that will forever haunt your fondest memories. In that brief affair, you learn so much about her and yet not be able to truly know her in full. In the little that you see you are helplessly hooked -- and are infinitely intrigued to see so much more, to wander in her every nook, to wonder about her uniqueness, her every move, her every mood. The affair has ended and yet your thoughts always find itself in her. You want to go back. You don’t want to leave. You want to stay.

New York is a slippery slope from which you fall and fall deep, an affliction from which you never recover, an affair to endlessly relive and remember…