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Matthew, age 46, showed me around The Ramble in Central Park, where he introduced me to the tufted titmouse and I spotted the first red tail hawk I've ever seen in person. Be sure to check out his wonderful website that details his naturalist observations, Backyard and Beyond.

“My mother became a bird watcher when she and my father moved to Nantucket. This was in '79. So I finished high school there, and went off to college, and I would hear reports about how she was taking a class with some local naturalists and learning a lot about the island..."

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Ashira, age 27, sees some similarities between the Lubavitch Hasidic community she was raised in and the bike messenger community she's adopted.

“I grew up in California until I was like 14, and then I lived in Massachusetts. I went to a boarding school there for wayward Hasidic girls—I'm not observant now, but I'm Hasidic in my heart..."

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