When her boyfriend goes back to Ukraine to be with his ailing father, 23-year-old Dakota anxiously navigates her precari | dG1fY0lLOHlkT2lQZDQ
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00:01I wonder how I'll die.
00:04Heart attack, accident, car crash, shooter, cancer.
00:07Everyone dies of cancer.
00:09I hate it here.
00:11I love it here.
00:16Tell me a story.
00:19My mom's part Haitian.
00:21My dad's Dominican.
00:23I moved when I was six.
00:25This is Coney Island.
00:27They say you're not really a New Yorker until you live here for ten years.
00:30I've only been here for a little while, but I feel like I've been here forever.
00:35You're crazy!
00:36I have other plans.
00:37What kind of plans?
00:38Whoopee!
00:40My dad, he had a heart attack.
00:43How long?
00:44Until he gets better.
00:47I don't want to be a collection of sorrows.
00:54I miss you.
00:55I miss you, too.
00:56I miss you, too.
01:01I love you, Paula.
01:03You need to go home and take care of yourself.
01:06I love you, Coney!
01:08No!
01:09I love you, too.
01:14What do you think?
01:15Could this be happening to everyone in all places?
01:20Yes.
01:21Yes.
01:22I am one.
01:23One of unending and endless ones.
01:27One.
01:29One.
01:30One.
01:32One.
01:34And the secret word is...