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“I had never been to the Empire State Building before,” Taylor Polidore Williams says. “I thought I was going to be scared, but I wasn’t. It was beautiful.”
There’s something poetic about that image. Standing at the top of New York City, unafraid, taking it all in. “The top,” as it’s often called, is
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