“There’s a song on Sesame Street that I grew up listening to. The chorus is something like this, “Who are the people in your neighborhood? They're the people that you meet as you're walking down the street, they're the people that you meet each day.” Each verse is about a different kind of person: fireman, mailman, etc.

Somehow it never struck me how far from my own reality this song was. I never met a fireman or a mailman as I walked down the street. In fact, I rarely walked anywhere...”

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