You Saw And You Know
On the eve of Roe's anniversary.
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From Richard Selzer’s Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery. “In our city, garbage is collected early in the morning. Sometimes the bang of the cans and the grind of the trucks awaken us before our time. We are resentful, mutter into our pillows, then go back to sleep.
“On the morning of August 6, 1975, the people of 73rd Street near Woodside Avenu…