[ WP ] Begin and end your story with this sentence : `` And yet , the city remained . ''

And yet, the city remained. 
 It was always a place of hurt and sorrow, triumph and success, love and hate. I had been doing so well when my life came tumbling down. I was working in our offices in Times Square. This fact alone speaks volumes as to how well the firm had been doing. I had a new girlfriend that made me happy, I got new leather furniture for my apartment, and a new coffee shop had opened right next to my workplace. The romantic visions that had sustained me throughout the years of college about living in the city had all come true, of being in the hub of the world where everything was happening. But too much was happening, things that I never even saw. Late one night after a concert with my girlfriend as we were waiting for a taxi, all my aspirations, all my hopes and dreams came swirling right down. Pounding footsteps, heaving panting, and the next moment I was on the ground with my life pumping out of me with every beat. My assailant took off running, never to be caught. At first I was confused. Then the realization came. My legs. I could n't feel my legs. **Why could I not feel my legs** 
 After that I was wheelchair and building bound. Wheelchair, because my spinal cord had been severed. Building, because I was in a depression, one that I never wanted to leave, one where I wanted to just drink more to forget, to pretend like I could still walk, to fall into such a haze that it felt like reality. Suddenly the great city was no more. It was a place of sorrow and tragedy. A city that I would get angry at, and want to burn it to the ground and proceed to have another drink. One day after months of not working, my firm let me go. A couple weeks after my girlfriend stopped visiting and calling. My family still payed the bills, but were tired of my ranting. My life was over, all that remained was my misery. Except for that damn city. One day I would get back there. To retake the future that I had never had. But before that, I had to change. 
 And so, the city remained.
