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Rock On, or Live Long and Prosper

Dear Diary:

Robert C.J. Krasner

I was walking up Lexington Avenue the other day around 11 a.m., when just behind the Armory I looked up and noticed some bulbs were missing from the Walk/Don’t Walk sign, making it look like a hand signal from Mr. Spock.

“Live long and prosper,” I said to myself out loud.

Two much younger (and obviously “hipper”) women walking next to me heard me and they looked up at the sign.

“Rock on,” they each said.

À chacun son goût, to each his own, or maybe it’s just a generational thing.

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