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A Powerful New Song by Bruce Hornsby and Justin Vernon: "Cast-Off" (Lyric Video)

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ObserverArt3/23/2019 10:25:11 am PDT

re: #189 makeitstop

For the first couple of years after I moved from Philly to NYC, all my New Yorker friends would make fun of my Philly accent and all my Philly friends would make fun of my NY accent.

I figure at that point my accent was probably from somewhere in central Jersey. I’ve since gone full on NY accent, so fugeddaboudit.

I remember the girlfriend of one of the Philly guys. She was from Jersey just across the river from Philly.

She had the greatest Jersey accent ever. She was maybe 5’ tall, Italian and cute. She had this high-pitched Jersey accent and we would find we’d be listening at her and not to her. And she liked to talk so we heard her a lot. It was hard to keep from smiling.

Sometimes her one friend would interpret for us.

We had a blast in only that way a bunch of 21 to 23 years olds could on a big national holiday in the city that kicked it all off.