Thirty days to add to my knowledge of the States, starts with an Iberia flight from Madrid Barajas to JFK. There to meet me is my great friend from school, who has spent over thirty years on the east coast, and has gathered a wife, three kids, and two dogs along the way. They currently reside in the prosperous Jersey town of Haddonfield, over the Delaware River from Philadelphia. Famous for discovery of the world's first intact dinosaur fossil, Hadrosarus foulkii, photos of Bruce Springsteen used on the album Darkness on the Edge of Town, and it was the home to the fictional Harry of When Harry met Sally. Manicured gardens, nice cars in the driveways, some flags suggesting a bit of support for a man named Trump, the current drug and homelesness affecting much of
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