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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Crowded Bridge, Noisy Bridge, Deserted Bridge, Little Bridge
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Yesterday's Man Hike (led by Dave Tulloch) started out reminiscent of the day my wife and I spend in New York a few months ago but the ...
Geoff Dyer Gives Up on Giving Up
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Geoff Dyer -- famous for Out of Sheer Rage, his anti-biography of D.H Lawrence, which becomes a mediation on procrastination-- has written...
Hamlet is Perfect for Seniors in June
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It must be getting near the end of the year, as we finished Act IV of Hamlet today; Ophelia finally met her tragic, but beautiful, flower-st...
The Last Days of Tennis (Like This)
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All things must come to an end . . . and endings are worth meditation-- as evidenced by Geoff Dyer's fantastic book The Last Days of Rog...
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Keeping the Quadrupeds in Line
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Deer bounding across the road are quite menacing when you're on rollerblades.
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America's Gun Problem is Impossible
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Derek Thompson's excellent and informative podcast Plain English details the four obstacles that impede any solution to the proliferati...
I Don't Serve on Shomer Shabbos!
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The boys and I had off yesterday-- we never burned our snow days-- and my wife took off from her school, so this was supposed to be a rela...
Respect the Speck
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Hockey is hard enough to watch on TV, but if there's a black speck on the TV-- or several black specks on a couple of TVs-- then things ...
Whew . . .
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I was nervous all day for our first state tennis match: we earned a bye in the first round and we had to play Point Beach today-- last year&...
The Horror, the Horror!
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The year is winding down but we're still not done with Hamlet . . . or at least I'm not done with Hamlet -- one of my senior studen...
Crime and a Whole Lot More in 1963 L.A.
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One-Shot Harry , by Gary Philips, certainly evokes Walter Mosely . . . Harry Ingram, a black journalistic photographer/ Korean War veteran, ...
Ian = Work
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Ian put in some hours working this weekend; Saturday he went to his county trail maintenance job with his brother and the heat was so bruta...
AITA?
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There's a forum on Reddit called AITA (Am I the Asshole?) and I wanted to put this incident on there (but forgot to post it) but I go...
The Jack Wong Effect?
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On Tuesday, my son Ian got to play Jack Wong, the eventual winner of the GMC tourney (and one of the best players in the state) and then he...
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Setting the Story Straight
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My wife insists that I revise yesterday's narrative, when I presented a video of a Killer Deer . . . apparently this particular deer, a...
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Men . . . We're the Best
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I learned from a Freakonomics Radio Podcast (Women are Not Men) that while women are catching up and even surpassing men educationally and ...
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So Much Tennis . . .
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Today was the GMC Tennis Tournament, an all day tennis extravaganza with 26 teams from Middlesex County in attendance . . . we left for Thom...
Be Prepared and Have a Plan?
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This morning the weather report was grim: "High winds, severe thunderstorms, possible large hail, possible tornado" and there was ...
Here We Go Again . . .
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It's hot, it's humid, and-- just in case you thought you were safe in the water-- the lantern-fly eggs masses, mortar colored and re...
Tranquil Time Travel
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Emily St. John Mandel's new novel Sea of Tranquility floats by in an otherworldly manner, which makes sense-- since it is beautifully w...
More Tennis Adventures
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We enjoyed a nice 4-1 win yesterday against St Joe's-- especially since their players were all wound up for senior day-- unfortunately, ...
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People Are More Different Than You Believe
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One of the essential things I always try to remember is that there are lots of people that genuinely believe things-- holy things, moral th...
A Tough Loss and a Tough Win
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Monday we had a big match against Metuchen which will probably determine the winner of the White Division-- and the two smallest schools by ...
Like the Shining, But With Time Travel
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If you're looking for a fast-paced novel with gender fluidity and plenty of time travel, set in a spooky hotel, then you'll love Rob...
Stacey Summons the Dead
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Stacey and I have the same schtick when we begin Hamlet-- we both play the role of Horatio, who-- in the opening moments of the play-- is sk...
Happy Mother's Day?
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Mother's Day did not start off so well this year-- Catherine's shoulder pain was so intense she couldn't sleep, despite various ...
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All Blue Food
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All Blue Seafood and Ramen House is now just called All Blue Chinese Cuisine and no longer has ramen-- it's now a Sichuan Place and the...
TGIFF
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Thank God it's fucking Friday . . . what a week: Catherine woke up on Tuesday and she couldn't lift her right arm and had to go to u...
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How Far Would YOU Drive For an Abortion?
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This post-Roe Map of America is going to inspire some interesting abortion travel campaigns: come to Chicago and stroll the Riverwalk, samp...
He's Your Pusherman
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Good outing for Highland Park yesterday, we beat Piscataway-- a Group IV school-- five to zero and while they weren't all that good in m...
New Shit Has Come to Light
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We were watching Goliath and someone used the phrase "crock of shit" and my older son Alex said, " what of shit?" and ...
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The Ticks are Back in Town
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The kids work outside all day on Saturdays, Catherine works on both her own garden and the community garden, and the dog and I spend plenty ...
In My House, The Apple Falls Right Next to the Tree
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Yesterday afternoon, I yelled up the stairs to my older son Alex, who is eighteen now, and asked him what kind of roll he wanted for his bur...
Spring is in the Air (Among Other Odors)
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Lovely spring day: excellent for reading on the back deck, listening to the wind rustling through the bamboo, watching the birds alight amon...
Thus Endeth the Streak
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We finally dropped a White Division match-- after seven wins-- but I couldn't be more proud of my team; we traveled to the super-fancy p...
Gametime Decision
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After our marathon tennis match in the freezing wind and cold yesterday . . . and after driving a couple kids home, trying to get some food ...
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A Close One
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Away match today at JFK High School in Iselin and things did not start well--our line-up was something of a mess, with a couple kids at a ma...
Surviving Tuesday
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Tuesday is my least favorite day of the week-- no fresh Monday energy and no end to the week in sight-- but I survived today's Tuesday w...
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Billy Bob = Law?
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Goliath is the weirdest, most surreal legal drama I've ever seen-- the first season seemed like it was going to be in the vicinity of B...
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Reversal!
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Yesterday, I went biking and rollerblading while my wife went to the gym, then we strolled around Duke Farms and stopped at Flounder Brewin...
Keeping On Keeping On
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I worked a full day today, and I mean a full day-- not one minute off-- I covered a class and had a duty and finished Henry IV and started ...
AITA?
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There's a fun thread on Reddit called "Am I the Asshole?" and if I get motivated, I'll put this situation on there: this ...
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Some Real Hard Sci-fi
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Tochi Onyebuchi's sci-fi novel Goliath is dense, myriad, multidimensional, Biblical, and socially relevant; it is written as a sequence...
Is It Spring Yet?
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Chilly match this morning in South Plainfield but I had the bright idea of moving the start time from 9 AM to 10 AM-- which didn't help ...
TV is Good When You are Sore
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My core is still sore from the yoga class yesterday-- so I'm doing lots of TV . . . as it is the last days of my Spring Break; Cat and I...
Dogs Are Smart (People Too)
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This morning, when Lola and I arrived home from our morning constitutional, I had forgotten that we left through the back and so the front d...
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Oof
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Overserved myself last night-- we began pub night at the Beamsdorfer, looking at some oil paintings of the Raritan done by Sleepy Dan's ...
The First Rule About First Singles . . .
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My son Ian had the match of his life Tuesday, got hurt Wednesday, and got to sit out and watch his brother play first singles Thursday . . ....
A Win and a Loss
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Despite a wacky line-up, we cruised to an easy 4-1 victory over Spotswood, and we remain undefeated-- Boyang had to play doubles because of ...
Still Undefeated! But Defeated at Scheduling . . .
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Holy cow . . . no one told me about the insane scheduling that's involved with tennis-- tennis players are involved with EVERYTHING . . ...
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Weird Spring Break
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I am on Spring Break this week, but my wife and kids have school (they don't have Spring Break until next week) and we still have tennis...
Rocks Are Heavy
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It's more fun to pilfer one rock at a time from the park, then it is to wheelbarrow a bunch of free rocks in a pile by the public works ...
Atlanta = Black Seinfeld
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When Donald Glover's brainchild Atlanta isn't being totally weird (like the recent Black Mirror reparations episode) it reminds me ...
The Wild World of HP Sports
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The rainy weather finally broke today, allowing us to play our match against Edison Academy-- a nerdy math magnet school with a lot of tenni...
The Nineties . . . Whatever
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If you came of age in the 1990s then it really helps to read a book about all the stuff you didn't pay attention to . . . all the stuff ...
Dave Breaks the Rule
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As many of you know, I am generally an advocate of the Golden Rule of Food Hygiene: Never leave perishable food out for more than 2 hours ...
A Good Start
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It's always nice to start the season with a win, especially if it's your first win ever as a varsity tennis coach, so I was especial...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Do Again
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We met some friends at Flounder Brewing Company in Hillsborough yesterday, and the beer was great (especially the Fred IPA, the Brown Ale, ...
Word in One!
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I know nothing is more boring than hearing a grown man's Wordle journey BUT . . . this morning I awoke and a new opening world popped in...
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Worth the Spot
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Stacey drove me to the library today during school so I didn't have to give up my pole-position parking spot (I need to exit the school ...
F U Cells and Formulas
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At least some girl in my college writing class knew how to fix the Rutgers Excel spreadsheet . . . because I sure as hell don't know how...
Potpourri
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I returned to my old stomping grounds for a tennis scrimmage match today and while the match was a great success tennis-wise (Ian, Alex, and...
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Something Spooky
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Batman: The Long Halloween, by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, is a dark, moody, and surreal graphic novel-- and it's got all the usual villai...
Tennis Anyone?
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I thought it might get up to 45 degrees today-- that was the initial weather report-- but instead the high was a brisk 38 and the winds were...
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Not That Sick
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I've got some kind of cold or allergies or sinus thing, so I'm all stuffed up and I have a sore throat-- but luckily, I tested negat...
Dave The (Pretty) Good Samaritan
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I was on my way to the store, and I was in a bit of a rush because I wanted to get some chili cooking and I did not plan ahead and defrost a...
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Caliban's War: Expanding on the Expanse
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My memories of The Expanse TV show and the series of novels are beginning to combine and unravel-- perhaps I have been infect by the protom...
He's Your Pusher (Final Tennis Notes of the Winter Season)
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Today, in the last match of the EBRC Winter A-League, I played Chinmoy for third place-- we were both 7-4, I think, and folks were excited t...
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Two Things I learned Today from Podcasts
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Two things I learned today: 1) Freakonomics taught me that we all need to stop tik-tokking and playing video games and start hunting white-...
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Right According to Plan
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So things are preceding as expected: 1) Ian beat Alex in the three-set challenge match to determine first and second singles on the tennis t...
Tennis vs Soccer
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I have coached soccer my entire adult life and can organize and arrange a practice for four to forty people in my sleep, but I am finding te...
Suspicion Confirmed
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As I was leaving the dog park this afternoon, I walked past three witches-- or at least I assumed they were spellcasters of some sort . . . ...
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Tennis and Scooping
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Weird tennis match this morning-- I hurt my quad last week playing soccer, so I promised myself I wouldn't run too hard at tennis this m...
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Ring Out the Bells
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Let it be known that Dave put in a full work week-- five full school days, four tennis practices (one canceled because of rain), the filling...
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I Am Sleepy
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Tragic double overtime Rutgers loss to Notre Dame last night . . . and the lateness of the game made it so much worse; Alex and I stayed up ...
Where Do memories Go When You Can't Recall Them?
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Ian didn't have the best day at tennis practice today-- perhaps because he had a dentist appointment at 7:00 AM to have a cavity filled ...
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It's All Happening in Dave's Brain
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Things are pretty wild right now in my consciousness-- there's Semantle and Wordle and Globle and Worldle, plus transferring my Henry IV...
I Blame the Time Shift
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My knee hurt last night, probably a combination of my tennis match and all the weather changes, so when I woke up this morning, I figured I ...
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Another Saturday, Another Tennis Match Against Barry
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The Saturday morning tennis schedule has gotten weird-- people are injured or have dropped out, so I played Barry again this morning-- and w...
An Old Dog Learns New Tricks
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A week-and-a-half ago I turned 52 and I was ready to turn it in and retire . . . but apparently that's not in the cards yet as my stup...
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Work: A Place Where They Enjoy Dave
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When you take a little mid-week vacation, at home no one really misses you-- Catherine and Ian were mired in mid-week dilemmas and chores an...
In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Lion?
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Alex and I decided to take a last snowboarding trip up to Belleayre to celebrate his acceptance to college (Rutgers Engineering) and when we...
Duh
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It's surprising that it took this long to figure out that most people don't want to spend 70+ hours playing Elden Ring . . . all th...
The Great Unmasking . . . Not? Sort Of . . .
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Today was The Great Unmasking in my school, but it started slowly and gathered speed as the day went on-- in my first period class, seven of...
Triple Epic Ending
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I finished three epics this weekend: 1) I made it to the end of Anthony Doerr's 600 page novel Cloud Cuckoo Land . . . and the five pl...
Tennis Notes Redux Deluxe (Kudos to Bud)
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The winter tennis league is winding down and only the survivors are left-- a number of players have dropped for injuries, so I played Bud ag...
Never Again (Hopefully)
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On Monday, masks will (finally) be optional at my school -- so teaching Shakespeare will be much more joyful for me (unfortunately, the scho...
Post-Birthday Mortem (Who Gets a Black Eye on a DECA Trip?)
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I had a lovely birthday yesterday-- in the morning, my wife walked the dog and made my lunch so I could sleep in-- and the weather was good ...
Another Seussian Birthday
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The good doctor and I share the same date of birth-- and for twenty-one years we roamed planet earth-- our time intersected we shared the s...
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March Birthday #1
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My son Alex turned 18 today and he just found out he got into the Engineering School at Rutgers-- very exciting-- but he's not home to c...
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