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Neni and Jende are sitting near the statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle. This was where Jende would call Neni when he was feeling lonely and homesick. It is also the place where he “[took] in the city”—that is, where he went to feel that he was a part of the city’s energy and action and to remind himself of the desire for excitement that pushed him to leave Cameroon. When the city wasn’t enough to put him at ease, Neni’s voice worked as a “balm,” or the thing that soothed his aches from loneliness and homesickness. The calls…