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Springtime in this city-and elsewhere-we imagine, marks the resurgence of empathy among men... We are thinking at the moment of a bus driver on upper Madison Avenue who, on a recent Monday, drew his bus close to the curb in a place where buses are not supposed to stop, and opened the door. Then he reached down and picked up a bag of soiled laundry. He hopped off the bus, entered a Chinese laundry, left the bag, and hopped back. As he resumed his journey, we said "Good idea." The driver grinned. "I'm getting married next week, and then I won't have to do that any more,' he said, and added, "She's pretty, too."

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