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He was pleased to feel part of a humanity that included tens of thousands of brown working-class men who had left their families behind and were on their own. These denizens kept New York City up and running, the United States up and running, the countries left behind from Guatemala to Nepal up and running. They were heroic.

Always tell a big lie, darling, to swallow the truth—with the small ones, you’ll get found out and be thrown in prison.