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Dear Diary:

I was on an uptown 1 coming home from my job at a SoHo restaurant.

As I sat there with my backpack and big black headphones, a man sitting nearby took a jar of pickles out of a plastic shopping bag. He opened the jar, ate two or three pickles and then extended the jar to me.

“Pickle?” he said.

I thanked him but declined, gesturing to the meal in my own plastic bag I was bringing home from work.

He shrugged and continued to eat pickles and sip the juice.

— Cara Denton

ImageLove Is All Around

Dear Diary:

It was a Saturday morning in late summer. I had run out to buy bread and was walking home along Sixth Avenue in Park Slope.

At Carroll Street, a construction worker was redirecting traffic away from the block, which was closed for road work.

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