This is how it went:

Cab driver: You not from here.

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Me: I am. I live in Manhattan.

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Cab driver: No, but you not grow up here.

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Me: Why do you ask?

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Cab driver: Your face look like comfort & peace. New Yorker who grow up here look angry & mean.

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He also had this quote taped up onto the partition:

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Today, unequivocally, many things will go right, & some things might go wrong! That's life! Accept it... Deal with it... Cope with it... Get over it... Learn from it... Enjoy it... What better choices do you have? Life is still beautiful! Life still goes on! {Fernando Batista}