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In Central Park, you can't
put anything outside the park,

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so we've been cheating
a little bit at a time.

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We've hung these beautiful
banners out there.

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And then, I had actually
worked in Central Park earlier.

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I directed a program,
started a program,

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called Poets in the
Park in Central Park,

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and this is my favorite
place to work in the world.

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It's the Arsenal
at Central Park.

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It predates the park,
and it looks out

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on everything in the park.

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And then there
were benches right

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behind it looking
into the zoo, and I

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started reading the little
brass plaques on the benches.

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And my-- here's to Grandma
Tootie, who sat here

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for 40 years with her dog,
Bozo, or whatever it was,

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some combination.

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But plaque after
plaque after plaque, I

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realized that there were people
sitting here with their dogs,

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so we were able to
sneak this little one

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in from Gertrude Stein.

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I am I because my
little dog knows me.

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