Another aspect of the drives I have not mentioned.
Driving in I go through downtown, in fact I drive within half a block of my old apartment on Riggs Place in NW DC, near the gay ghetto of Dupont Circle.
Driving home last night down 13th St NW, I went through block after block of row houses, not great neighborhoods. Yes I actually checked to see that my doors were locked more than once. There were 14 homicides in DC in the last month.
Today I drove past beautiful houses that I could never afford: tudoresque mini-mansions with manicured lawns. I guess I am somewhere in the middle; I couldn't relate to either of these two worlds: black and white (and I mean extreme, not just color).
I drove back out to my little condo in Virginia, just a couple of miles over the river and in another world, of grey.
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I think the gay ghetto which you fondly remember has morphed into a heteroetto now. All the cute gay boys are in Logan Circle ;-)
except for the one who lives in Silver Spring.
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