Can someone annotate this text in 300 ish words. "
In Strand Used Books on Broadway and Twelfth one snowy March early evening in 1956 when the street-lights on Broadway glimmered with a strange sepia glow, we were two NYU girl-poets drifting through the warehouse of treasures...
Yes, you were childish and self-absorbed and given to sulky silences and mercurial moods in the presence of showy superficial people, and I adored and feared you knowing you’d break my heart, my heart that had never before been broken because never before so exposed.
I perceived an individual ... a woman nearly my height (I was tall for a girl, in 1956) in a man’s navy coat to her ankles and with sleeves past her wrists, a man’s beige fedora hat on her head, ....and I saw that she was Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn Monroe. In the Strand. Just like us."
