For many who left, it was the longest period they had ever been away from their homes in the city. And while confusion reigned in those early days (and does still), time and distance conferred perspective. If you weren’t holed up in your apartment listening to the sirens wail outside, you weren’t a real New Yorker. “Should we go back to New York City? I could take a bath.”The Spiers also found life outside New York more tolerable than they had once imagined it.

Source: bd News24 January 03, 2021 04:18 UTC