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Miss Liberty on Liberty Island
  
Brooklyn Bridge, New York City
  
An Apple a Day
  
We were really looking forward to our return to New York City, the “Big Apple!” The flight on the “highway” across the Atlantic ocean already had been an adventure. A friend arranged for my boy and me to visit the cockpit. By coincidence, a cousin was on the same plane on her way to Florida.
 
Breathtaking for sure was the view at and from the Empire State Building, landmark of New York City, epitome of a skyscraper. The fabulous suspension bridge ranks among the reasons, why we like Brooklyn! So we enjoyed the Brooklyn Bridge, the Flatiron Building on Fifth Avenue, the One World Trade Center on Ground Zero, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral, still tucked between skyscrapers.
 
At long last, we paid a courtesy visit to Miss Liberty. Ever since it was unveiled in 1886 in New York harbor, it has been a symbol for freedom. Emma Lazarus’ poem that is engraved in a bronze plate in the pedestal of the statue states it all: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...”
 
The song “On Broadway” soon echoed in our ears, not to mention Central Park, the High Line Park, and the Rockefeller Center. Its Prometheus statue reminded me of meeting an old friend from Nebraska on my first time over, and also this time we met a friend whom we hadn’t seen for ages. Toward the end of our visit, we ran into guys that were dressed up as superheroes, just Superlópez wasn’t among them.

Continue reading in the book “SO LONG – Encouraging Messages for Change Sceptics.”
  
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