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Grace Fiandaca's avatar

Love, love this post. You’re both whip-smart and hilarious. Keeping me slightly sane--thank you for that.

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Eileen Smith's avatar

Slightly sane? You're luckier than most.

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Grace Fiandaca's avatar

Haha, okay, so I’m exaggerating the state of my mental health. Just didn’t want to risk getting Baker Acted. Gotta prep for the hurricane coming through in two days because there is no global warming.

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Donna's avatar

Bad news—the thing about high school you thought was a dream was actually a flashback. Remember how how I, being your next of kin, got the call from the principal? The police, the reporter from the McLean Gazette (or was it the Sentinel) chasing us and we hid out in the restroom at McKeevers? The dilly dip? Wasn’t your own senator Texas Tex Cruz keynote speaker at your graduation ? I think it all happened exactly the way I remember it.

Is LSD a hallucinogenic or the Mormon church? I can’t keep them straight.

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Eileen Smith's avatar

Oh my god. It’s all coming back to me. Darts, cheese bread and beer for dinner. At least you live in the Commonwealth.

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Richard Smith's avatar

I don’t think Teddy Cruz is worthy of two teaspoons of vanilla extract. Perhaps that amount of castor oil.

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Eileen Smith's avatar

So true.

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