Stories I Tell Myself
Linda Brody Bakst on Brooklyn, growing up, identity and more
Category: Pittsburgh
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I admit it: I was a New York snob (maybe I still am). My worldview was like the famous New Yorker magazine cover (above) that shows New York City looking west from Ninth and Tenth Avenue, where the city is a bustling metropolis and then the rest of the United States is a vast empty…
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Gary had a break for the Christmas holiday during his second year of medical school and I had off from work at the City of Pittsburgh Finance Department, so we planned a trip to Buffalo. Where else would one go during Christmas week? Why Buffalo? In a remarkable turn of events, my two brothers married…
