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Thread: NYC Sunday ✨️ ☀️🏃‍♂️❤️ 1/
NYC Sunday - at the Whitney /2❤️
NYC Sunday-skylines 🗽❤️/3
Now just some gratuitous NYC weird beauty 4/ #Whitney
Not a NYC trip without getting an update on the state of things from a cab driver. In this case a Romanian immigrant convinced Russia will defeat Ukraine who believes Putin's a badass for "taking on the whole world". Thinks the media is full of ÷%^# too. 🗽😏🤷‍♂️ 5/
Good night NYC. Thanks for the beautiful Sunday ❤️/end

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