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Air Sign Ambassador in the Windy City

Air Sign Ambassador in the Windy City

living, loving, partying in another world

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Anderson II
May 15, 2024
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I'm in a new city and I can smell the difference on the crisper air. But every American city is the same in a way. There is rushing about, standardized branding, dizzying height and a pervasive emptiness. Elegance in the steel. Crisp capitalist construction. Vastness, a Romantic scale, a Neo-Venetian canal cutting through the skeleton. One can’t escape …

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