My Mother, New Orleans
News Source : The New Yorker
News Summary
- LZ Granderson: I love New Orleans, but I cannot live in New Orleans anymore.
- He says moving away from the city where he was born has felt like another irreplaceable loss.
- LZ: Neither a mother nor a city is perfect, and both are easy to hate.
- Until, that is, they are dying, then it is impossible not to love them.
- Lz: New Orleans is disconnected from the rest of the United States, but it is also disconnected from Louisiana.
My father, who was born in New Orleans and who died there just last year, used to always say, Funny that they call this the Big Easy.In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed more than thirteen h [+14477 chars]
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