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Every city has a place and situation where it gives up its secrets. Washington DC is easy, nearly a whore, thanks to the monuments. NYC is trickier, but it's there, on Wall Street at night in the snow and in Brooklyn by the water in the wind. Sydney was eluding me, until it was a street I'd walked down a hundred times, but hadn't registered in the right way (is it because I'm on the other side of the planet that my former ability to read maps has now resulted in my constantly orienting them the wrong way?) and hadn't seen at night and when I touched the stone and it started to rain and the monument across the way was lit up, then I got it. And it was nice, being able to walk aimlessly here at night, not because I was looking for something, but because I had found it.

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seriously random aside: Nicole Kidman has the _greatest_ dress on the Golden Globes. Woo.