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NEXT TO NORMAL WAS AMAZING.  THE CAST  HAD GREAT VOICES EXCEPT FOR THE TEENAGE BOY SUITOR.  NEW YORK'S A GREAT PLACE TO BE IN STORMY WEATHER.  LIFE GOES ON.  SO THAT'S THE BROADWAY SHOW REPORT.  IT WON THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA.  THAT HASN'T HAPPENED SINCE RENT.   IT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS,MEDICINES,AND TREATMENTS.  HOW ACCURATE-I DON'T KNOW AND HOW APPLICABLE TO THE LATEST TREATMENTS FOR BIPOLAR DISEASE I'M NOT SURE.  STILL YOU HAD TO RELATE AND IT WAS GREAT.

THE NEXT DAY I WENT TO THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART.  THERE WAS A MAUDLIN EXHIBIT OF MONET'S WORLD WAR I ART.  IT WAS SOMBER AND GRAY AND NOT VERY MONET.  STILL IT SHOWED HOW SAD HIS LIFE WAS DURING THE WAR.  HIS HOME WAS OCCUPIED BY THE GERMANS(GIVERNY), HIS HOMETOWN IN NORTHERN FRANCE WAS OCCUPIED TOO AND HIS BROTHER WAS A PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY. 

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STILL PEOPLE CRITICIZE THE FRENCH FOR ACCEPTING THE VICHY GOVERNMENT IN WORLD WAR II.  THAT WAS THE SECOND TIME THEY WERE INVADED BY THE GERMANS AND DEFEATED.  WE'VE ONLY HAD SEPTEMBER 11TH.  IT WAS TERRIBLE BUT NOW NEARLY FORGOTTEN.  DENIAL IS NOT JUST A RIVER IN EGYPT.

SPEAKING OF DENIAL I DIDN'T GO TO GROUND ZERO ON THIS VISIT TO NEW YORK.  I CRIED MY EYES OUT LAST YEAR WHEN I SAW THE GAPING HOLE IN THE GROUND 8 YEARS LATER.  ON THE 9TH ANNIVERSARY, I DIDN'T EVEN LEAVE MID MANHATTAN.