February 2012
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Why Valentine?
Stories of some early martyrs, for example, handed down orally, have sometimes been embellished and romanticized.
On February 14, about 270 AD, Valentine, was behead, after having been imprisoned and beaten.
Sound romantic to you? How then did his martyrdom become a day for lovers and flowers, candy and little poems reading Roses are red…? According to legends handed down, Valentine...
My abdomen still hurts from laughing so hard last...
Trust.
As soon as I started listening to the chorus of this song, it hit me.
Here you have a couple singing to each other:
What if I fall and hurt myself? Would you know how to fix me What if I went and lost myself? Would you know where to find me If I forgot who I am, Would you please remind me oh? Cause without you things go hazy
Cute, no? But while I was listening, it was as if a wire had...
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I just finished The Hunger Games: Part One...
… and at this point, I’m about to kill Katniss. What is wrong with her? I would take Peeta in a heartbeat! Not Gale! (what kind of name is that? Gale? It sounds gay).
But then again, she has her reasons and I’m not her and she’s not me. But if I was her… Peeta would be mine. Screw Gale.
“They do surgery in the Capitol, to make people appear younger and thinner. In...”
– Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games
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January 2012
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The Author
I just finished reading, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. It was such a great story and I’m sad that it had to come to an end, or rather, that my window into those fictional lives had closed. It kills me because I know that the lives of those characters will still go on in their world and I will never know what became of them, I can only imagine it. Even then, I know that what I could imagine...
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