Ms. Lauper, a Queens native, began crying on Tuesday as she described finding success so close to home.
She described finding the 10pm slot peaceful: "If anything I would have preferred an even later time," she said, adding that her performance was about showing the benefits of making things by hand.
Majora Carter, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, demonstrated just how much a park would mean to her neighborhood; she wept openly yesterday as she described finding the modest slice of riverfront while walking her dog one day, and the journey it had made from dump to park.
She described finding an unexploded bomb outside her San Francisco home, the lives of her family members saved only by a rare overnight freeze that disarmed the weapon's mechanism.
He describes finding himself back in Paris: The streets.
A third trembles as he describes finding his brother's body in an orchard near Quetta.
There's a wonderful passage in the novel in which Chris describes finding her way to writing in the first person.
In the late Donda West's book, "Raising Kanye," the star's mother describes finding him, at twelve or thirteen, in front of the mirror, "primping" and plotting.
King also describes finding a box of his absent father's books, sci-fi-horror paperbacks from the mid-'40s, which were his first encounter with the genre.
Christine Thomas, a community nurse in Swansea, described finding out-of-date medicines piled up in the houses of patients she cared for, saying the situation was "sheer madness".
A police source described finding a cache of sex toys when Adeyoola's flat was raided after she was arrested.
