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The thing that always attracted me to new york was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine,' rushdie says. 'everybody comes from somewhere else. everyone's got a polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. that's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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The thing that always attracted me to new york was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine,' rushdie says. 'everybody comes from somewhere else. everyone's got a polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. that's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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