"It’s weird talking about really funky old neighborhoods that you haven’t been to in a while. There’s this corner of 9th and Hennepin in Minneapolis. It used to be a really dangerous part of town. It used to spell trouble; now it spells sandals and yogurt. So maybe Belmont and Sheffield is like that, too: “Belmont and Sheffield? Oh yeah. That unisex hair place down there? We go there sometimes. I took yoga down there for a while."

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