I arrived at Doctor’s Hospital on east 88th street seventy-seven years ago yesterday. Some days later - maybe four or five since in those days giving birth was a leisurely affair, but in any case past the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima - my mother brought me home to 83rd street in swaddling blankets even though it was likely blisteringly h…
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