1939-2000
I love you Dad.
Your Son,
Adam
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It describes the city of Washington D.C., where he worked for many years on Capitol Hill:
"It's a great beauty of a river, not particularly long, but wide and twisting with high, forested banks. Rising from the earth as a spring at Fairfax Stone in the Cumberland Mountains of West Virginia, it meanders lazily through the Maryland countryside before thundering through the cataract at Great Falls and growing ten miles wide as it flows into the vast expanse of the Chesapeake Bay...it bacame a city of light, attracting the best the country could offer. But when the sun disappeared behind the wooded banks of the river and clouds shut out the moon and stars, the dark acquired dominion and the nether world began its workday. Its denizens could not be seen, but their presence was felt and their deeds took concrete form. They did their best to hide their calling, but once every generation a beam of light would shine into the darkness so the world could see, if ever so briefly, the handiwork of the creatures of the night.
In time the people became cynics and heaped scorn upon their capital. It became the city that broke their hearts".