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HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY!! I wanted to post a picture of us at Marelli's (Spelling?), or in front of dudes, or playing zoo, but alas, the digital revolution had not yet struck and i don't have a scanner.

March 2, a date which will most likely not go down in history (unless amy or Darby get insanely famous), but one which holds special meaning because tonight is the night of nights. A bus of teens will soon venture into the dark night (as opposed to those nights which aren't dark that come when snow is on the ground and the sky still glows at 2am...i love those nights. Walking out of a friends house to journey home in the demi-dark calms my spirit). I will probably journal events on the trip and post some of them here in humorous fashion when i return...i can't wait. For those of you staying here...well you could go see our middle school play at the Stone Table Theatre. They are appropriately performing Narnia (non-Blumereich version). I'll never forget my third grade year when i was in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I played the Bull. I was black. I had two lines. I had a gold ring painted below my nose. One night, Aslan forgot to unfreeze me in the witches castle, so as all the other Narnians roamed around, enjoying their regained mobility, my third grade self crouched in charging position (she had frozen me before my twin horns bored holes in her winter-loving torso). Eventually, he came bac kto me and i was able to lash out at the Witch, "Come and get it then!" Ah, the bliss of third grade, i can still sing some of the songs from that musical...ask me, and i'll sing them.

May you all enjoy nice weather these next few days. I hope to return to find an email in my inbox from some of you :)...that would make me happy. Shed, box, don't die, or miss me too much (this is feeling way too much like i am leaving the country). Now, i retire to a better place.

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