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These moments of reckoning—in which something that once felt exciting begins to seem noxious, mephitic, dangerous—are important to heed. Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, "A Quest to Rename the Williamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins," 5 Apr. 2017

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