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if anything.. my NY pals are even more embittered, especially now when it has been exposed that attacks on the U.S. were imminent, but the warnings ignored.. or that the fire exits of the WTC were not structurally sound on the top floors (had they been, hundreds, if not thousands, could have escaped)...


Betty -

Firstly, so great to hear from you in our other beloved city NOLA - where so many of us (daddy, glamnerd, myself, terence, goblin etc.) first got our groove back when we went for pre-Halloween weekend last year, with New York (and our lives) still in shambles.

Just wanted to give perhaps another viewpoint to this week's anniversary, as it felt in our little corner of the East Village. We had dreaded the day, planned to leave, then got too busy to get out on Tuesday as planned.

What actually happened was a windy, quiet, beautiful day, where a mile and a half north of the solemn ceremonies, those who could sat outside at a cafe, escaping the TV and its inevitable tears, no one in a hurry.

We chose the neighborhood fixture Cafe Orlin, where we had met up with the family a year before in the acrid air of September 12, in a closed-off, disaster-movie East Village. A year later, it was so fitting that the wind brought a fine layer of dust over everything - nature staging the most incredible tribute of her own.

And we talked only of all the good that happened from that day, and continues to happen from it:
How The Motherboards had their finest hour; how we got to know our neighbors in a profound new way; how a cop told me that after never understanding transgendered people before and being somewhat repulsed by them, in the terrible calamity he had an epiphany of sorts and now was a tranny-lover; how Art, not Commerce, was once again New York's most prized endeavor, as artists and organizations (including our own) felt a new importance to their work.

Some of us, it would seem, are actually LESS bitter now than before 9/11 ever happened. Love to everyone there - we'll be back this winter..
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