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Posen family, MBGCo Brought me the best, least stick-in-your-teeth toffee I’ve ever had (after finding out all the guys ate the Christmas candy they’d brought in before my shift the next day). Be...

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Budget Percentage Cuts: EPA 31.4% State Department 28.7% Labor 20.7% Agriculture 20.7% Corps of Engineers 16.3% (Aren’t you building a wall?! And Infrastructure?) Health and Human Services 16.2% ...

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Elementary School The Wizard of Oz - Munchkin @ Oakland Christian School High School High School Musical - Cathy @ The Starlight Theater (2007) The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Imogene Herdma...

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Finals are nearly over. Guh. While I appreciate the necessity of studying library management and administration (on account of, you know, having to work with people to get the things you want), I...

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Spent the early morning imagining someone else could see through my eyes. Looked at the colors differently. Found every blue thing in the room. A good thing.

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I miss making wine disappear with Mike. That's all!

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I bought him a book. I bought him a world. Several. And I lent him worlds too.

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She put on her hat, walked slowly out the door, said to herself with a strange foreboding: " When I see this room again, I'll either be very happy, or very, very sad. ..." Her courage rose, br...

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He's dead. It's awful.

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David told me about a clever way these history majors rate girls: the girls are ascribed years. It's a four point system. The first is 0-1, 0 being not hot and 1 being hot. The second rates the f...

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"Life is art, and you've got it."

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Plotinus on the essential nature of virtue is nice and clever: "If a fire is to warm something else, must there be a fire to warm that fire? Against the first illustration it may be retorted that...

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Me: "Wait, wait, I've got this. You, sir, are top shelf toilet paper!" Atticus: "Excuse me?" Me: "Asswipe."

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We have always known that we are fighting something, when we strive to be noble. I have no patience for the despair at the biological/neural drives behind man's action. The Greeks knew that a man...

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My grandfather died on Wednesday, which I found out last night. "Aubade" is in my head and I'm sad.

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That was a singularly gorgeous, oppressive novel. Christ.

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Pointing at Evan in a Spring Awakening photo: "...and then you've got horny Gollum over there..."

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I was thinking about how we choose our friends more or less arbitrarily when we're little. Then something changes, and we look for friends who suit us (whether or not we find them is, of course, ...

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Under the Net by Iris Murdoch Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa Possession by A.S. Byatt Ugh, short list. Depressing.

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A gust bends the hair Into a spindly halo While we are walking. I wish you wouldn’t notice Me tame it back into place, Worried you will see yourself.

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Wasn't accepted to Brown. I knew it was a long shot from the outset, but I'm still sad. Only two schools have contacted (and rejected) me out of the nine at this point, but I'm still nauseating...

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"And the crystalline forms, the granite, the hornblende-schist, shone darkly with the idea that she would not write, that the Protean letter would form and reform, in her head, that it might beco...

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My best friend wrote a fantastic piece for The American Spectator. Read it, if you get a chance. Let Them Eat Candy

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"The tide was out; the sea was far away. The moment had come for a personal conversation. Both felt this; both were mostly willing, but inhibited" (282). "'I had a bad time, with Fergus. We torm...

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I have these moments where I'll browse memories, and then all of a sudden, I'll think I'm living in the days I've been thinking about. I thought it was late autumn during my senior year of high s...

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