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Our recent tales and reflections remind me of a birthing story my good friend Tim tells. Although Tim grew up in and around Philadelphia, he moved to New York for graduate school and settled there. His wife delivered their son at the hospital of Coulumbia University, and Tim speaks with great pride of being able to take his son, fresh from birth and newly swaddled, to the window of the delivery room and to hold him up to the view: skyscrapers, bridges, the river. And he lifts his newborn boy up to see all this, spread out before them in the middle of the night, and he says, "This is your city."