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to all of this. Imagine anybody who lives in a Park Avenue apart ment that can't afford $54!
The ones I have visited
There's a person I know who hasn't given any money yet and other people in the house have paid for her.
At any rate, this woman is a triumph, so I want to mention that. And I want you to see that it really does look better.
I shall. And what about the trees? I mean you planted trees, too.
Well, the trees are there, but they weren't watered enough and weren't trimmed enough and weren't nourished enough. Some of them have died. But there are still quite a few there, and they looked marvelous this spring. You may not have been in town when they were in bloom, but they were beautiful.
No, I wasn't. Mrs. Haupt also planted some.
She planted 20 blocks, and I planted I don't know how many blocks, but between me and the city matching me, I planted 74th to 96th. It really does look better. That's that. What else happened here?
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