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09/23/11 09:11

On the Friday night before the 9/11 anniversary, the streets of Manhattan were already clogged. I waited over half an hour for a bus and then started walking up 57th Street. It was a warm, muggy night, and I was carrying two coats (long story).

Parked by the next bus stop was a pedicab, operated by a young woman of extraordinary beauty. I didn't want to hire her (too expensive) and she didn't circulate where I needed to go anyway. But she provided a lovely distraction as I waited for my bus. In fact, she made me not really want to see a bus.

She was from Turkey, she said, one of my favorite countries, I said. (Honestly.) She had come to New York two years ago. "Two years ago today," she said with a smile.

She was not in a hurry to go anywhere. "I'm tired," she said. I asked how long she'd been operating a pedicab. "This is my first day." She gave me that ravishing smile again. A glaze of perspiration glistened on her face; the street lights shone in her thick black hair.

"And today is my birthday," she said a bit sadly.

After a few minutes she had to move, a bus (not mine) was coming. Gathering all her strength, she pedaled off into the night, the beautiful birthday girl whose fate, I felt quite sure, would soon improve.

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