I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by but often they change or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life including sexual life could be carried on on many levels.