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Big Summer
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She’d taken a picture of me in my carefully chosen clothes and a tremulous smile, holding a sign she’d painted in watercolors: First Day at the Lathrop School! The shot was probably already on her Facebook page, getting oohs and ahhs and
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If she is 25 in modern day, then this instance from when she was in 6th grade took place in approximately August 2006. TheFacebook didn’t launch until 2004, dropped the “the” around 2005, and didn’t stop requiring school/.edu email addresses until September 2006. There’s no way in 2006 (or even 2007 if she was an older 6th grader) her mom, aunts, uncles, and grandparents were all using Facebook. Just saying..
“I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing people’s names isn’t a neurological condition; it’s a choice. You choose not to make learning people’s names a priority. It’s like saying, “Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“It is very dangerous to get caught without something to read.”
― Last Night at the Ritz
― Last Night at the Ritz
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