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[gollymollie]

I don't think I actually have anything to say, but I feel like trying somehow. In African History I imagined what it would be like to look unmistakably African, like the Sudanese kids I went to high school with - tall, thin and inky black with a sort of gentle, vulnerable-looking face. A part of me always feels inclined to idealize that which is

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[jadugar]

History teachers have that effect. Shit you not.

[claracter]

Have you ever cried on the last day of class? For some reason on the last day of sociology, a class that was not even very kind to me, I wept when Ms. Meyer served donuts and excused me from doing the latter portion of the final for which I ran out of time. And I think that there was definitely some sentimentality when physics finally was over.

[gollymollie]

On the last day of World Ex, I got a little misty-eyed. Sarah Frank wept quite a bit in front of everyone; it was really sweet.

[claracter]

Your illness sounded a bit more poignant to me than illness typically does. Know that I wish mightily for a speedy recovery. (It's a shame I did not leave with you some oregano extract; it tends to work marvelously on inflamed glands, and sore throats in general. For tonsillitis, it far surpassed boring penicillin.)

[gollymollie]

I'll keep oregano extract in mind next time. Ha, have you ever tried colloidal silver for sore throats? I used some at work (there is a drawer full of various medicines for employee use) and it made my throat much better, and just think - I sprayed silver into my mouth! It was glorious.

[claracter]

I think at some point I'd heard of colloidal silver being used as a throat-soothing elixir, but do not have any pronounced memories of actually using it. Given my mom's penchant for serving up exotic tinctures and herbal concoctions at the signs (however imaginary) of any infection, though, I'm probably no stranger to this remedy. There's a rather pungent solvent called Alkalol that has much tried-and-true repute among medicinal traditionalists--so much so that it's standardly stocked at Walgreen's--that can work rather effectively in expelling stubborn mucous from the membranes. Unfortunately, according to its directions, it must be snorted, which I thoroughly dislike.

This communal arsenal of medicine you mentioned seems quite sensible in its unusually collectivist premises. Probably not a very formal institutionalized mechanism, it still strikes me as an unconventional form of health insurance. Plus, as demonstrated by my eighteen dollar oregano oil, the expense of even a modest medicinal collection can quickly empty the pockets.

[bonusbunny]

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