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And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

-Thomas Menino

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And For The City's Birthday, We Will

Thomas Menino

And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

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I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. epic and tiny at the same time. if you're going to be a fiction writer, why not take on something that means something. in doing this, you must understand that within that epic structure it is the tiny story that is possibly more important.

We americans commercialize everything. look at what we did to christmas. christmas is jesus' birthday. now, i don't know jesus, but from what i read he was the least materialistic person who ever walked the earth. no bling on jesus. he kept a low profile and we turned his birthday into the most commercial day of the year. in fact we have a whole jesus birthday season. and then at the end of it, we have the nerve to have an economist come on tv and say what a horrible jesus birthday season we had.

I think, in the grand epic, jesus is the hero of our stories. and our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

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