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I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone…which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The narrator wished for the city to empty so they could be alone, wryly noting that this is the New York prayer most reliably answered. The wish soon soured, and everything they touched became solid loneliness. Solitude, once granted, proves heavier than it seemed.
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