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Walking Like a New Yorker

Dear Diary:

As I walked from my car to the front of Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, an elderly gentleman with a walker approached me and said, “I saw you walking; you're from New York, aren't you?”

“Yes,” I replied, and we were soon chatting about my plans to return home in the near future.

As we parted, I asked him, “How'd you know I was from New York?”

“I was born in New York and walk fast, just like you do,” he replied, taking off with his walker like an Olympic sprinter.

Apparently, when it comes to New York speed, you can take it with you.

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