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The Week on the Stoop

Rachel Silberstein

Rachel Silberstein

23 Sep 2012 — 1 min read
The Week on the Stoop

photo credit: Runs With Scissors

We ate and drank the Brooklyn Book Festival.

A whole bunch of places still have tickets available for Yom Kippur services.

We considered the rainbow doors of Park Slope.

Raccoons may have won the battle, but they have not won the war.

We braced ourselves for Barclays.

We thought about moving into a Prospect Park tree house (and we decided against it).

Fall arrived.

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