"Germans were writing on the cars with blue chalk-the number of persons in each car, their rank, their nationality, the date on which they had been put aboard. Other Germans were securing the hasps on the car doors with wire and spikes and other trackside trash. Billy could hear somebody writing on his car, too, but he couldn't see who was doing it.
Most of the privates on Billy's car were very young-at the end of childhood. But crammed into the corner with Billy was a former hobo who was forty years old.
'I been hungrier than this,' the hobo told Billy. 'I been in worse places than this. This ain't so bad.'"
To the person who has done an amazing job in bringing thrones players around the world into a close-knit community, who has single-handedly and valiantly held the NY meta together for the past 4 years, and who reminds me of the hobo from Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-five":
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Ser Staglord, you are a true Ned and icon to us all in the meta. Here's to many more great years to come!
) efforts to keep AGOT alive in Manhattan (meaning he was traveling into the city from Long Island regularly) that allowed me to find a place to try the game and get pulled into this great community. Since then NYC has added a few more regulars and LI now has its own play group, with Chris acting as the bridge between the two. 
