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New York is possibly the only place in which most people have already lived, in some sense, in the public imagination, before they ever arrive.
Looking at the office workers suspended high above us, I sensed for the first time my father’s desire to leave China and to live in a foreign country. It was the anonymity. He wanted to be unknown, unpossessed by others’ knowledge of him. That was freedom.
The first place you live alone, away from your family, he said, is the first place you become a person, the first place you become yourself.
