By Hurubie MekoMaria Cramer and William K. Rashbaum Regret over missing a rare occurrence, a nostalgic stroll and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Readers respond to Paige Williams’s report on bears in Lake Tahoe, Alice Gregory’s Profile of the philosopher L. A. Paul, and Jennifer Wilson’s piece about heartbreak remedies.

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