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“She has a tendency to overdesign. I mean, she draws in her eyebrows, for god’s sake.”
You could be good at being a friend, and no sooner had I had the thought than I knew I was not.
The yew is one of very few conifers that do not bear their seeds in a cone.
beige nylons.
More briefly: Beowulf is a violent epic about the dangers of being friendless. There’s a party, the misfit is not invited, he sulks outside, then comes in, wreaks havoc, and is killed.
And yet how many of us can say we’ve made an accommodation, a sacrifice seemingly against our very nature, for a friend?
