I am too busy to be sick.

Is this the flu?

Doctor diagnosed it as a sinus infection.

Prescription filled at Henry Ford Pharmacy.

Home, resting.

Call before noon for a
primary care appointment
and eliminate the guessing
game the same day.

Former Detroiters Amy Margolin, Hillary Brody, Adrienne Brown

and Elyse Handleman

reunion, a chance to "talk about old
times and futures"
Dana Luria, 28, from West
Bloomfield, said she and her friends
were actually more excited about
Thursday's event than her high school
reunion. "It's likeminded people, people
that came to New York looking for a bit
of adventure but still want to feel con-
nected to their community. People say
`I'm a New Yorker, but I'm a Detroiter'
And look how many of us there are."
Justin Stewart, 27, heard about the
event from a friend and attended for
the chance to meet up with people he
didn't know were living in New York
as well as those he had previously only
seen in passing.
"Sometimes, you do a quick hello
and walk away, but there's some people
you want to catch up with," said the
Bloomfield Hills native, who works in
real estate. "The stop and chat on the
street, you don't have the time to ask
`Where do you live, what do you do
now' ... and you don't want to do it on
the street. Here you are forced to and
want to:'
Five years in to New York living,
Todd Weiser, 28, of Oak Park, was
surrounded by people he knew at the
event. "It's all the Jewish people I barely
knew in high school and college who
are now my Jewish friends in New
York," he said.
Weiser, who moved to New York to
pursue a career in TV/film and now
works as a development coordinator
for Animal Planet, waved at another
friend descending into the crowd. "It
feels like before Thanksgiving back
home in Royal Oak:'

Into The Future
Such events are merely starting points,
Aronson explained, in an effort to estab-
lish lines of communications among
ex-Detroiters. Word-of-mouth market-

ing has attracted them to these events,
but it's going to be ongoing communi-
cation that will keep them connected.
Federation plans on creating Web sites
for these communities as well as utiliz-
ing social media components, such as
Facebook and Twitter, to maintain and
expand upon the dialogue.
"We want to create a network where
the kids in our communities in L.A.,
New York and Chicago can talk to each
other, communicate with each other,"
Aronson said. "We've already created a
Web site in L.A. Detroit, in my view, has
to be a global community."
Event speaker Adam Levinson of
Fortress Investment Group, agreed
with Aronson's sentiment.
"In a world where globalization is
still the primary organizing force, it's
easy to be lost," he said. "You've got to
look for common threads, connections,
etc. It's remarkable how many people
you come across.
"I've been lucky, I think, because I've
been all over the world. I've traveled.
I've done business from Moscow to
Bangkok, and in a lot of places I run
into people — Detroit has always been
an easy point of connection."
Even though Levinson has spent
11 years of his life outside of the U.S.
and two-thirds of his business career
abroad, he remains loyal and con-
nected to his home city.
"It's about remaining connected and
not distancing yourself,' he said.
"For me, being connected is being
a sponsor and being an active partici-
pant. You don't actually need a resi-
dence in Detroit to be involved. That's
what it's about: being involved in the
community. And you can do that from
L.A. or Detroit or from Shanghai."

HENRY F4DR.,D MEDICAL CENTER

Farmington Road

6530 Farmington Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(248) 661-8240

JEFFREY M. FINN, M.D.
INTERNAL MEDICINE

New York writer Pablo Andreu contributed

to this story.

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