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Morning Coffee

Dear Diary:

Every morning I get coffee from one of the many coffee carts on the New York City streets.

I only drink my coffee black, and I cannot drink it with sugar. I am careful when ordering to slowly say I would like a small black coffee with no sugar. Sometimes this works, and sometimes my coffee has the unwanted addition of sugar.

One morning, I was under terrible stress. When I got to the cart, I carefully placed my order as usual.

“I would like one small black sugar with no coffee,” I said.

— Roderick Denault

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Seeing ‘Pippin’

Dear Diary:

In 1975, I was a student at the Katharine Gibbs School at what was known then as the Pan Am Building. One Wednesday we got the afternoon off to see a Broadway show. My friends and I decided to see “Pippin” at the Imperial Theater.