I sit on the terrace of my apartment in Rome. Alone and in silence. The mercurial traffic below scarcely heard, blotted by the distance between myself and their earth-boundedness. A squawky seagull lands on a chimney, then flaps away. Everyone should have a terrace. For reflective mornings companioned with coffee. For candled evenings sated with wine and the warmth of friends. It prompts a Whitman-esque urge to yawp over the roofs of Rome. Instead I nudge a salamander away from me with my toe and sit down to write. My table is wooden, weathered, well-used. And it was here on this terrace, here at this table, that I first found My People.
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