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A famous map painted by my friend and compatriot Saul Steinberg depicts the global village as seen from Manhattan: the distance from the Hudson River to the Pacific Ocean is the same as the distance from Ninth to Tenth Avenue on the Upper West Side, and somewhere beyond the calm ocean float Russia, China, and Japan.

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Beauty is nature's way of acting at a distance, so to speak.

And he said one day, "What's the shortest distance between two points?"

And he said, "That is the shortest distance between two points."

Today we know that families are living further and further apart, and that definitely takes a toll on family relationships and family bonds over distance.

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