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From: Town & Country
Date: 20080401
Author:Larocca, Amy

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I WAS NOT ALIVE in 1953, when, according to lore, Dylan Thomas drank eighteen whiskeys and died quietly on the stoop of the White Horse Tavern. By 1970, when the Weather Underground blew up a stately town house on West 11th Street, a few blocks to the east, my parents had met but not yet married. There are so many West Village legends that precede me: the mannered, codified society of Henry James's Washington Square; Edmund Wilson's proposal to Edna St. Vincent Millay, who was named for the hospital off Seventh Avenue where her uncle's life was saved. ...

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