Monday, January 01, 2007

A CHRISTMAS STORY
For our son’s first Christmas, Charles had hoped to take him on a carriage ride through Central Park. Instead, Jordan, now 9 months old, and I snuggled under a blanket in a horse-drawn buggy. The driver seemed puzzled about why I was riding alone with a baby and crying on Christmas Day. I told him. “No charge,” he said at the end of the ride, an act of kindness in a city that can magnify loneliness.
(NEW YORK TIMES)

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