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City Personification

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City Personification Just like people, Florida changes according t o her whim and circumstance. I suppose every state has its personality, and it would be correct to claim that cities, too, have their own traits.  Let's take the last city we stayed in for a while. Wynantskill, New York, is a slow moving city in the winter with a few splotches of real red and brown blotted by gray clouds. The air is clean and fresh, and the ground sprouts fascinating trees and thin creeks opening to truth and treasures. Just like the trees form a commune known as a forest, the people, too, form a community. St. Augustine, Florida, on the other hand, has wild and brazen look-at-me lights in the winter–excitement whirring through the historic streets. The water lapping its shores could be calm or stressed, much like the man-made lake outside my mom's house. Some days the lake is without a care in the world–a sheen sheet of contentedness. Other days it has been agitated by the ducks–ripples of worr...