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WHENEVER DECEMBER rolled around, Manhattan transformed itself into a city that Maggie didn’t always recognize. Tourists thronged the shows on Broadway and flooded the sidewalks outside department stores in Midtown, forming a slowmoving river of pedestrians.
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THE BIKE lay on the side of the road beneath a gray oak, the handlebars at an odd, jutted angle, as if it had been thrown with angry force. It was early on a Saturday morning, the fifth day of a heat wave.
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MY MOTHER once told me I had to get into a top university, or die trying. You have to be the best, Nancy. Remember: my sacrifices for you. Remember: everything we toiled for in this strange and foreign country. You cannot let it be for nothing.
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