dear new york city, my new love, our affair was short lived and I cannot fathom how you were able to, in the single moment I was with you, take me by the hand and lead me to something I didn't know I needed. a place where kaleidoscopes of people are not only living but alive and everyone has the chance to be whoever they want. somewhere that is somehow an escape and a reality. you are a wonderland straight from a fairytale, full of extraordinary culture and ordinary people that somehow become more once you you force them to succumb to the lights and sounds of the city. and when all these things come together and connect like the pieces that make up the sides of the glass palaces, i realize you become the most beautiful thing I've ever loved.