Rachel Traxler (Doctoral Candidate, Teaching and Learning, Special Education, NYU Steinhardt)
My first night in NYC, I sat in a wooden booth in the village and cried in an Italian restaurant, mourning a loss I [couldn’t, still can’t] identify.
A courier fell off his bike in week two, spilling Caesar salad across Broadway and Astor Place. Six of us helped scoop [the salad, him] up, back into the [bowl, bike].