Harvey marks the second hurricane we've lived through together under the same roof, 34 years apart.
For all he and Mr. Levy lived through together, in this he was alone.
It is fast becoming not just a drama but our collective memory of the years most of us have lived through together.
We lived through the Blizzard of '77 together, the Surprise October Storm, Wide Right, No Goal, the shut-down of the steel mills, the closing of factories, the demise of the grain elevators, and yet we are -- for the most part -- happy and philanthropic, always ready to get behind a cause whole-heartedly.
We lived through every major news event together, both as journalists and New Yorkers... from that terrible day in September when I couldn't reach her on her cell, to the war, to the August blackout that found us sleeping in my Upper East Side apartment, sweltering... sharing an earbud apiece as we listened to local radio and trying to find out when the lights would come back on.
It is a series of moments, replete with gifts and challenges, that we are meant to live through together.
From Ibsen we learned about the interaction of private and public, the beauty of structure and the idea of the dramatist as spokesperson: "What he lives through," Ibsen once said, "all of his countrymen live through together with him".
"We live through our emotions.
We lived together, we ate together.
We have lived through a lot together and then we had to wait until the final minute to equalise.
