By midafternoon, I was sweating all over and my pulse was racing, so I decided to rest on a long bench by the wall, but I tripped and fell before I could reach it.

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It was one that had captured my attention years before, when I fell under his spell, and that of his beautiful city.

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It happened suddenly and I essentially fell asleep for about 2 days, before being taken to the ER.

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And that truth became painfully clear when, less than a week after I had appeared before the CHC, some of the biggest Wall Street firms collapsed and the bottom fell out of our economy.

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