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Mamie Sawayn

Mamie Sawayn attends to the city's unnoticed valves: the sales taxes in bodegas, the rent histories of jewelry stores, the lunch shifts of home health aides. Her columns treat these little gears with the gravity of eulogies, yielding the sneaky weight of Manhattan's true life.
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