A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream — Jonathan Santlofer
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A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which meant it as now an hour-and-a-half commute via the 7:06 Hicksville to Penn Station every morning. (Dark City Lights)

— Jonathan Santlofer
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