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<font size=3>At 7/7/2010 03:37 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Surely someone has criticized
even the changed version. Doesn't it mean that<br>
Chinese people only and always eat with "sticks"? And by
mentioning it ("To<br>
*think* that I saw it on *Mulberry* Street!") isn't the<br>
narrator telling children that it's weird?</blockquote><br>
No. Rather, that Lower Manhattan could be weird. (And perhaps
it was weird to see a Chinese man in a neighborhood of Italian
immigrants.)<br><br>
Joel</font></body>
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