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[thenew20s37]

When I started my program at Hopkins, I started in DC, where I met a funky, tattooed writer with two-tone hair who made jewelry and reluctantly lived in the DC suburb of Alexandria so her daughter could attend the better schools there. We bonded immediately, and in the two short years that I commuted to DC for class, I did so with a higher purpose

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[alycewilson]

I think a lot of people feel the same, maybe even the ones you live near. Writers just know how to express it more poignantly. You'll be all right. Listen to Bob Barley's 'Three Little Birds."

[thenew20s37]

I'm going to quote you on that! I think about your comment all the time now. You are right: "writers just know how to express it more poignantly."

[alycewilson]

That was, of course, supposed to be Bob Marley, not Bob Barley. The perils of answering LJ posts with my new smartphone!

[thenew20s37]

Yeah, I wondered about that Barley guy! Gotta hate those teeny, tiny, little buttons.