City of Exes

City of Exes Moving from Iowa to the big city seemed such a promising new beginning: bigger bars, better fashion, glamorous parties, and—most importantly—new boys   After a month of couch surfing with a 76-pound suitcase, I found an apartment in Ridgewood, Queens, that I could just barely afford, and settled in. One morning I went running and ended up at the Queens Blvd. Target. I strolled the aisles of cost-efficient towels in my neon...