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The North End

I have been visiting the North End for four years as I have just graduated from right up the street at Suffolk University. Beyond the ridiculously great smells that hardly allow you to get to the middle of Hanover without succumbing to a ravioli, something that always had me wanting to open my mouth to anyone who will listen has been the characters you will pass on those streets. There are the authentic of the authentic cigar smokers hanging outside of shops, men posted up in their garage facing the sidewalk in recliners drinking wine in beach chairs (and obviously smoking cigars), and young people who know how to pace themselves with a beer tab starting at five.  There being movies shot there every few months is not the thing to have in mind when you hit the North End; its simply the walk, the smells, the stone, the old churches, and the archaically stylish atmosphere of the nook in general that really do the trick for people in ways that, might I add, may not hit them until the second they have left. All of Boston is a historic landmark. But to feel the earth on which early Americans toiled by day in dough powdered smocks the North End is the (as much as I hate this word) destination for historians and plain explorers alike. Go get a loaf the size of your torso at any corner bakery in this area, and then comment on this comment. Don't worry about time either, because some of them are open all night.    
    

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