SO SINCE THE PANDEMIC STARTED I hadn’t been on Chambers Street with the sign at 8:00 like I used to be. Today, the mayoral election over, seemed like a time to go back. I was half-hesitant. It was a different world now. I was 74. Who needs an old guy with his same old sign. But I went and everybody on the wide sidewalk had a mask on. But I saw those faces I used to see. They saw me. My eyes almost watered. Some said they’d looked for me every day. People who’d never seen me nodded at the sign’s message or gave a strong thumbs-up. One woman said, That’s absolutely the truth! She pulled her mask down a bit so I’d hear. One woman said, Amen.
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