"The thing I love about New York," Suzanne said, "is how everyone has such an attitude."
That confused me. "You love that about New York?"
"Oh yeah! It's a swagger. Like confidence. You think you're all so superior."
Still not getting it. "Again, this is the thing you like?"
"Totally! There's no hatred! Everyone has this idea about New York, like you look down on everyone."
"Well, we kinda do," I had to admit.
"Yes," she said, "but not in a bad way. Everyone else has this us against them mentality. They see New York as the enemy. Like, people in Chicago, we have this attitude that we're the best of both worlds, because we're a major city in the mid-west. We combine the pure, old-fashioned, rootsy heartland American ideals with modern, industrialized city life. But we have this bitterness that we don't get credit for that because we're still not as big and recognized as New York City. Chicagoans pretty much hate New York. But let me ask you this, what's you're opinion of Chicago?"
"Well, I like you."
She laughed. "Oh, you are SO sweet! But seriously, not what you think of me, what you think of the city of Chicago."
I though for a second and said, "It's alright, I guess. I don't know, I don't really think about it."
"Exactly! This rivalry, this hatred, it doesn't really exist on your end, it's not something that matters to you. It's a much bigger deal to us, we're the ones who are, like, all negative. You know, there's a lot of hatred in this world. So much of it comes from people being just, like, insecure. If more people had faith in themselves, maybe there'd be less pain everywhere."
Then Marley said, "And that's where the angels come in. Partly, anyway."
Suzanne nodded. "Yeah. I just hope I can help enough people see that."
"You can see it's a problem," said Marley. "That's what makes you a good angel, that's why you'll help plenty of people."
Suzanne smiled and looked like she was gonna cry for a second. But collectedly, she looked at me and said, "I love this girl."
Who wouldn't?
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