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These magic days (I mean preholidays time) everything is possible in New York... even on 5th Avenue...
When day going closer to twilight and the streets become darker, lighten just by reflections of the store windows, the fairy tale begins... it’s a right time for cup of coffee and even simple horse driver can be invited by the Queen of the Animals (of course together with his horse and carriage) and can be her Prince Charming... just for this evening...

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“All world is a theater and everyone is just an actor here”... Many of us heard this sentence and New York at these days really proofs this phrase. Everyone can see so many shows on the streets of the city here and there and the actors are us ourselves. You can choose who you’re going to be actor or observer, so these shows are very interactive, you can choose even the costume (often it will be your own). And yes... I forgot, you can be a “professional” critic... So, don’t stay at home, go outside and participate...

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Great Holidays are over but on 5th Avenue are still big sales... here and there can be seen a lot of people with multiple shopping bags or boxes containing gifts for themselves, relatives or friends. New York is still in great mood but not everyone who lives here is the same... I saw this man right across the street from St. Patric's Cathedral. He was sitting on the stair steps. There were some shopping bags near him which make him similar to thousands of buyers warping hither and thither but inside his bags were not gifts but all his belongings, this big sale was not for him...
Nobody paid any attention on the “glorious citizen of World Capital”, just silly seagull tried to steal some food... unsuccessfully, there was no food.

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Even if we would live in magic country where all the wishes were realized... we would have more other wishes to ask from Santa Claus. I’m sure that everyone has something to ask...
As well as these guys which made their personal wish list, I made my own and hope it will be realized in that Year of the Dragon. I stoped to believe in Santa when I was 5 years old but now I’m saying: Hope on the best and let it be...
Happy New Year to everyone!

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Explore #158, 12/30/2011

This day she was wearing her best hat which she used only for special occasions. It’s holidays time and she wanted to look as beautiful as always and even better... Walking along the street she was feeling somebody’s look... She turned back and saw just mannequin in a store window. That beautiful young woman looked directly at her as if she wanted to say something... Lady in hat turned pale as if she had seen a ghost, that mannequin looked exactly like her in her young years... Gentle music appears in her head. Reminiscences crowded into her mind instantly... She was young and beautiful and it was her first ball... She was wearing in a wonderful ball-dress and held amazing fan. Her mind was filled by expectation of something unknown, may be possible meeting with handsome “prince of her dream”...
A signal of some car returned her mind back... Yes, she met her “prince” long time ago but it was in a past and never happens again... She is lonely...

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Explore #113, 12/28/2011