“It was a funny thing, he thought, that when you live all your life in a place, you almost never do the things that tourists go there to do – like walk on the beach or go swimming in the ocean. He couldn’t remember the last time he went swimming. He wasn’t even sure he still owned a bathing suit. It was like something he had heard about New York – that half the people who live in the city never go to the top of the Empire State Building or visit the Statue of Liberty.”
