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After years of living in a place I couldn't really know, it was volunteering with a meal delivery service — and meeting the people who needed those meals — that finally opened New York City up to me.

After years of living in a place I couldn't really know, it was volunteering with a meal delivery service — and meeting the people who needed those meals — that finally opened New York City up to me.

[SUBBUZZ 9897517][SUBBUZZ 9900344][SUBBUZZ 9900345][SUBBUZZ 9897550][SUBBUZZ 9897555][SUBBUZZ 9900501][SUBBUZZ 9897568][SUBBUZZ 9897581][SUBBUZZ 9897585][SUBBUZZ 9897587][SUBBUZZ 9897590][SUBBUZZ 9897595][SUBBUZZ 9897599][SUBBUZZ 9897600][SUBBUZZ 9897602][SUBBUZZ 9897603][SUBBUZZ 9897605][SUBBUZZ 10025353]<a href="https://twitter.com/kategavino?lang=en">Kate Gavino</a> is the creator of the <a href="http://lastnightsreading.tumblr.com/">blog</a> and <a href="http://www.powells.com/book/last-nights-reading-illustrated-encounters-with-extraordinary-authors-9780143127314">book</a> Last Night's Reading (Penguin Books). Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Lenny Letter, O Magazine, Rookie, the Paris Review Daily, and Brooklyn Magazine. [SUBBUZZ 10154936]You can also see and share this essay as a video:[SUBBUZZ 10154940]

How Delivering Meals To Seniors Showed Me The Real New York

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How Delivering Meals To Seniors Showed Me The Real New York

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