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Holly

When I was quite little (about two or three) I was terrified of dogs. I don’t remember that, I only remember my parents telling me. I do remember, though, the day my parents brought home an adorable black lab/border collie pup. She was beautiful. She thought that she was the queen, and she would fight [...]

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Panic and Emptiness

It will be generally admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man… [T]he music started with a goblin walking quietly over the universe, from end to end. Others followed him. They were not aggressive creatures; it was that that made them so terrible to [...]

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Community

I recently finished my second (and final) quarter at community college. It was not the cakewalk I imagined it would be when I blithely wrote that “going to community college after coming within a year of getting my degree at a 4-year university would be like returning to kindergarten after high school”. No, not exactly. [...]

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