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GIRL ON FIRE Actress and activist LAVERNE COX has emerged as a New York icon. She reminisces about her salad days in the city with EDDIE ROCHE. photography by david lipman
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ave you spent a lot of time at Hogs & Heifers? I’d heard of it, but I had never been here before today, which feels bizarre. What first brought you to New York? I came here for college back in the day. I don’t like to say what year that was. I still adore this city, and I don’t think I’d ever want to live anywhere else. At
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least not in the United States! Where did you first live? For a semester, in a dorm at Marymount College on the Upper East Side. Then I moved into an apartment with another student. That roommate experience was challenging, so I moved back to student housing. I eventually found an apartment on the Upper West Side, and in that apartment, when I stretched out my arms, I could touch both walls. The bathroom was in the hall.
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