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I spoke to many of those present, but felt little connection with any<br />

of them. I stepped away from the crowd and sat on the sofa. I took out<br />

my phone to look at the pictures I had taken during the day. I had<br />

taken some inside MSG.<br />

‘You watched a Knicks game?’ I heard Priya’s voice from behind<br />

me.<br />

I turned to look at her.<br />

‘Yes, I went today.’<br />

‘Nice pictures. Can I see?’<br />

She sat down next to me. I flipped through the photos.<br />

My phone vibrated. A message from ‘Erica,Tribeca Nation singer’.<br />

'Checking out the Jazz and Music Fest?' the message flashed as a<br />

notification and disappeared.The phone screen went back to displaying<br />

pictures again, ‘Next?’ Priya said as I didn’t touch my phone for a<br />

minute, ‘Priya, just a second. I need to send a reply,’<br />

“Oh, sure, I will get a drink, Not for you, though,’ she smiled,<br />

wagging a finger at me, I smiled back, I composed a message for<br />

Erica: I leave Monday. Almost packed. At my farewell party now.<br />

Thanks anyway. :) She replied: Fly safe. Ciao. :) I looked up. I saw<br />

Priya engrossed in conversation with someone at the bar.<br />

I shut my phone and placed it in my jacket pocket. I then realized<br />

that I was still carrying the brochures Daisy, the old lady, had given me<br />

outside Madison Square Garden. I read them one by one.<br />

‘CATS—the longest running Broadway musical,’ said the first.<br />

‘Blue Man Comedy Show—combining music, technology and<br />

comedy,’ said another.<br />

One of the brochures was a sixteen-page thick, A5-sized booklet. It<br />

said ‘New York Music and Jazz Festival Weekend'.<br />

The room lights had been dimmed, making it difficult for me to<br />

read the text. I shifted iny seat closer to a candle on the coffee table.<br />

‘123 performers. 25 venues. 3 days. 1 city,’ it said on the booklet cover.<br />

The booklet opened with a two-page spread of the schedule of<br />

performances. It was arranged in three tables, one each for Friday,

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