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I Like Mike!
This is 70-year-old Mike Edison, a retired advertising sales executive who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York. Mike is a great example of persistence and the power one individual can have to effect change. Manhattan is known for great theater, great buildings, great museums, and… great noise. Stepping outside the relative insulation of a New...
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June 12, 2019
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