1:42:04
"Then, out of curiosit"y...
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...boredom, who knows what...
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...I left the Old World...
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"...and came back to m"y "America."
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And there a mechanical wonder
allowed me to see the sunrise...
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...for the first time...
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"...in 200" y"ears."
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And what sunrises!
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"Seen as the human e"y"e"
could never see them.
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Silver at first...
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"...then, as the" y"ears progressed,"
in tones of purple...
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...red...
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"...and m"y "long"-"lost blue."
1:42:44
In the spring of 1988,
I returned to New Orleans.
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And as soon as I smelled the air,
I knew I was home.
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It was rich...
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...almost sweet...
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...like the fragrance of jasmine
"and roses around our old court"y"ard."
1:43:01
I walked the streets savoring
"that long"-"lost perfume."
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"And then on Pr"y"tania Street..."
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"...onl"y "blocks from the"
"Lafa"y"ette cemeter"y...
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...I caught the scent of death.
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And it wasn't coming from the graves.
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The scent grew stronger as I walked.
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Old death.
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A scent too faint for mortals to detect.