This is a city of symbols

[redbrickrose]

And we need them desperately; we cling to them and celebrate them because they make New Orleans New Orleans. And New Orleans is not what it was, hasn't been put back together. Hopefully it will be, but that's going to take a long, long time. That's something we're all constantly aware of, but not something we think about much in any kind of

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[songgirl12]

I drove past one today and shrieked in excitement, because it's one thing to know they're back but another to see them. Oh my god, streetcars!

When they roll past my house again and I can hear their breaks when I'm lying awake at night, though. That's going to be really nice.

[mischiefmydear]

I spent all night dreaming I had moved back to New Orleans.