A Portrait on the Wall

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It took nearly a day to get there by train. But then there we were: Chicago!—the Europe of the Midwest, the “Rome of the railroads.” (Possibly parodying this association, Mark Twain explored how, to an American traveler, Berlin was “the European Chicago.”) Here everything was grand and girthy. Soon we were at my grandmother’s apartment, […]

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