Forbidden Love

SLC has impeccable timing. I know I posted this same quote, or at least the link to the full article, right after Katrina hit. But, as it's been a nostalgic couple of days, reading this on her AIM profile just hit home.

"For those of us lucky enough to have come of age in New Orleans -- even more than for the tourist who falls for her instantly -- the decadent majesty of the city is like a forbidden love. You want desperately to explain the depths of your enchantment, but you know in your heart that others will acknowledge it merely as an easy infatuation or a passing fling. You know they will never awaken at night drunk on the coffee-and-banana fragrance of her docks or the beery sweat of her pre-dawn streets or the humid hum of her streetcar summers. How could they ever understand the depth of your passion?"


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