My first five-minute freewrite
on my first day of posting at Steemit was written in ONLY five minutes in response to this prompt from 
Day 787: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: only what we could carry
Last summer I moved to New York with only what I could carry in my car. My small SUV. I brought an upright bass and other instruments and two suitcases full of clothes and my laptop. I was only going to stay for a few months originally even though I knew I wanted to spend more time there but I also knew it was notoriously a struggle to get by. I arrived in Washington Heights and somebody who was straddling two spots on the street in front of my place saw I was moving in and was nice enough to move two cars to make room for mine. My new roommate gave me a hand moving in and I offered her some of the gin I brought which was all I had and to my amazement she said she loved gin. We sat and talked and we decided we should go out that night and she’d take me to her favorite place in Harlem (67 Orange St). We took the 1 train then cut across a closed park to walk the rest of the way. We stayed out dancing till 4 am. I was amazed by all the outdoor fruit stands and other things about Manhattan in the summer.
Time's Up
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