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When I was first living in New York City,

Jamie and I had just gotten married and we had our apartment on the Upper East Side

and I got an email from my mother saying,

Hey, I thought I might come to New York for a visit.

How would that be?

Now, one of the things about my mother is she loves to travel.

She's very adventurous. She loves big cities.

She loves New York City.

And so it would be totally expected that she would love to come to New York City.

And when I saw this email, I thought,

Oh, this is going to be great.

I would love for my mother to come visit.

And I thought, oh, you know, if she's going to come for a visit,

I should like do some research and figure out like what's a hot new restaurant.

And I should make a reservation because she would get a big kick out of that.

And maybe I should get us tickets to a show.

And maybe I should do a little bit of research and find out like

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