The morning sun rose over Manhattan in a blaze of brilliant gold, sweeping across the twin neo-Gothic spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. By eight o'clock, Fifth Avenue had been closed to vehicular traffic from 50th to 52nd Street by special permit from the mayor's office. Over two hundred ceremonial guards in crisp midnight-blue tuxedos and silk armbands bearing the Moretti crest formed an impenetrable perimeter alongside city…
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