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Maybe it’s just a borrowed piece of someone else’s childhood

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Maybe it’s just a borrowed piece of someone else’s childhood

Luke O'Neil
Sep 20, 2020
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Maybe it’s just a borrowed piece of someone else’s childhood

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It was an extraordinarily hot summer in New York City in 1880. The type of day “a salamander would find no fault with,” an extraordinarily purple but charming piece of prose in the New York Times on July 10th explained. “You might have boiled eggs in the fountains,” the journalist wrote. It was hotter than even way down in New Orleans “where heat is com…

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