a quick e-mail authored by someone¹ — now a new yorker — who has kept me in stitches since 1989:

As some of you know, I live on York Ave. in Manhattan just six blocks north of the spot where Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle’s plane crashed, so I feel I ought to say something to make sense of it all: Remember, tragic though this evening’s events were, if we let them distract us from the normal business of America — working, playing, worrying about terrorism, loving, learning — then the Yankees will have won.

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¹ posted with permission