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As someone who recently moved to the NYC area, I do want to caveat this by insisting it’s essential to be clear whether one is *actually* cosmopolitan or merely *metropolitan*

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"It must be added however that, thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life had handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught." - "The Ambassadors"

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"Every Chicagoan is diminished in some way with Mike Ditka not here anymore." Lemme reframe this, Rick—"Mike Ditka, dead at 86, still a jerk." 'Da Coach' Mike Ditka embodied Chicago, the city he adopted - Chicago Sun-Times share.google/6ZJbjTFq8LWR...

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Mike Ditka made noises abt running for Senate after Jack Ryan dropped out in 2004. Sen George Allen as NRSC chair flew to Chicago, met Ditka, explained financial disclosures. Ditka plotzed and didn't run. Ditka was made for MAGA. We were lucky it was 2004. This Chicagoan isn't mourning.

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