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Kate loved San Francisco best at night. During the day it was an interesting city, decorative and lively and every bit as anonymous as a villain, or a cop, could ask for. But at night the city closed in and became intimate, a cluster of hills and valleys with the sea curled up against three sides of it. Sometimes, beneath the stars and the hum of traffic and the collective breathing of three-quarters of a million people, Kate imagined she could hear the city's song.
Like an old tune that had been recorded in a hundred ways, the song of the City could be smooth and sexy from the throat of a torch singer, or ornate in a cappella, coolly instrumental or raunchy in rock. The city's complex melody was never the same on two nights or in two
places: Here it had a salsa
beat, there the drive of rap held it, elsewhere it was transformed by
the plink and slither of Chinese instruments and harmonies, in another
part of town it had the raga complexity of Indian music. During those "only in San Francisco" times when the latest
outrageous excess of the City by the Bay made the final, tongue-in-cheek
segment on the national news - since the Ladies Of Perpetual
Disgruntlement had come on the scene, for example- the song occasionally
took on comic overtones, like a movie score preparing the audience for a
pratfall. No matter the setting, though, it was the same song, the night song
of the City of St. Francis, and it kept Kate Martinelli company as she
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