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Time, memory, and youth all fade away, but can bee preserved through writing. Joan Didon’s essay “ Goodbye to all that,” This is an essay about the ending of the author’s youth, into adulthood. Joan Didon is writing from her point as an adult, looking back into her twenties, while she was in the city of New York. She romantically writes about the city of New York, as a paradise for people in their twenties. New York is a city filled with adventure, and she is thankful for her time that she had spent in the city. Joan Didon was a young, idealistic writer, searching for an audience in the city of New York. She recalls her experience as a struggle, but also a fun time in her life, which helped her find herself, and in the end she found her husband as well. The city is notorious fast. It draws in people who are dreamers. These are people who are ambitious. The can be very poor or very wealthy. Didon’s depiction of New York illustrates people who are professional, hustlers, as well the people who are searching for a start in the city. It is not a place for people who are settled in their life or people who are at the end of their life.“ I want to explain to you, and in the process perhaps myself, why I no longer live in New York. It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, came city for only the very young.” (Didon, P. 226) I

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