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January 4th, 2009
In the end, it doesn’t really matter, I thought bitterly, quoting my favorite Linkin Park song. I shivered violently as I sat on my doorstep watching the snow fall lightly, giving the bushes a powdered sugar look. I slowly stood up and walked into my yard, tilting my face towards the sky. I [...]

Me and my friend are taking the train into the city in a couple weeks
we want to eat somewhere and go shopping or whatever
we’re from long island so we dont need to see touristy places like central park or empire state building
we just need some ideas of where to go to chill out and have [...]

1. I was walking with this guy I like (leonard) and all of a sudden he stopped and grabbed my shoulders and backed me up against a wall and picked me up and started kissing me, then he carried me somewhere while kissing and we walked in some door, but then he dropped me on [...]

I: Complete the letter
This is a(1)…………holiday. Every day we do something different. We had a fantastic day yesterday. We(2)……………to Manhattan. It was brilliant!
We had breakfast at the top of the Empire State Building but we didn’t see Hong Kong
Then we went to Wall Street. At lunch time we(3)…………..a picnic in Central Park. There were hundreds(4)………………..people [...]

How much will these things typically cost in NY?
A standard 10 min taxi ride?
A nice american breakfast?
Lunch of a sandwich crisps etc (also where to buy lunch? we have marks and spencer here)
A good dinner? (somewhere nice but not overly posh?)
To go up the empire state building?
Visit ground zero?
Go to the rockerfella center?
Also what is [...]

A few of you helped me once. I have revised them. Tell me what you think. Thank you so much and I can’t wait to see your city!!!!!!!
Day 1
Brooklyn Bridge (walk across)
Staten Island Ferry ride
Battery Park – World Trade Center eternal flame
Wall Street (not sure what I’m looking for here…a street? building?)
Ground [...]

on the floor of his apartment, gazing at it; talking to it.
1-24-2059: Weeks later Bernard got an idea. He had thought about it while dreaming. He was to strike it with one of the most powerful forces known to man, lightening. People thought him as crazy
when he climbed up the thousands of stairs of the [...]

My boyfriend (who has never been to NYC) and I are going to the city Saturday and Sunday. I have been several times (born in NY) and am in charge of our agenda. He isn’t a planner, so I know I need to make a list and times of things to do before we get [...]

Would you read this book?
1960’s United States.
Tension is higher that ever between the Soviet Union and the US.
3 Soviet Rogue Agents commit an act of terrorism on the Empire State Building, in a way that you’d never expect.
A grandfather calls his grandson and tells him to fly to London immediately where he will start his [...]

OK, I’ve never tried this before. I’m a bit of a skeptic, I admit, but a dream I had last week has really stuck with me so let’s see if it means anything!
I was with a large group of people who were familiar to me but I did not recognise, all about my age (22), [...]