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Hello I’m Sorry But I Love Setting Off Fireworks

Earth-shattering ka-booms are good for the soul

Right now, as I write this sentence, an amateur pyrotechnician is setting off fireworks near Broadway and 125th street in Manhattan. I can hear the whistle of a small rocket ascending skyward until the loud crack of its explosion, the sky outside my window momentarily red.