December 2011
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A Year in Review
2011 means a great deal to me.
I started off scared, so very afraid and cautious of every single thing I said and did because I wanted acceptance. I wanted so badly to have Brian like me, to get into a college that I loved, and more than anything else in the world, to get that NSLI-Y scholarship. My entire being ached for it.
The year opened with that scholarship interview and me taking one...
“You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than...”
– Annie Leibovitz
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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
adj. entranced and unsettled by the vastness of the universe, experienced in a jolt of recognition that the night sky is not just a wallpaper but a deeply foreign ocean whose currents are steadily carrying off all other castaways, who share our predicament but are already well out of earshot—worlds and stars who would’ve been lost entirely except for the scrap of...
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“I don’t know. We only broke like three—no, four—US laws and...”
– Adolat
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A day filled with nostalgia
mostly triggered by scents: that of the almond cookies my mother used to make all the time when I was young, Kevin’s Abercrombie cologne that is so very evocative of my confused eighth grade days, and the hazelnut coffee that will always remind me of home and my mother. The taste of Cool Whip, watching Phineas and Ferb there and then the Bermuda slideshow when I got home. Having Sabrina,...
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“Maybe i would become a mermaid… i would live in the swirling blue-green...”
– Francesca Lia Block
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