Personal Statement Take 2

[ptmusic2586]

My affair with the X-Men since a child has been somewhat sordid. It did not start with the comic books of the 1960s tucked away in some hobby-shop backroom, or with the Saturday morning cartoons (though they quickly became a favorite). Nor did it begin with the wildly popular movie trilogy that left childhood fans two options: to

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[hamalkah]

MUCH better in every way. It fits together cleanly, and you come out and say what you were talking around in the first draft.

And if for some reason you don't end up using it for your grad school app--do you know www.killingthebuddha.com? It's an online magazine about religion and such--you might think about submitting it to them.

One note: But those who stayed through the change recognized that it is this constant reinvention (of fictional characters to appeal to a new wave of adolescents, of ourselves in an effort to self-identify with minorities at the margins of society) You might want to spend a little more time with this, even if it's only one more sentence. It feels like it's getting shoved in at the last minute and I don't think it needs to be.