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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • My theory (or perhaps more accurately, hope) was that they were parked nearby, say at a local grocery store; from there they sent this text, then left the parking lot, honked, and parked once again at their nearby home before sending the final text.



  • My third grade teacher told me that negative numbers aren’t real.

    Reflecting back on it thirty years later, it’s clear what she meant, but the poorly communicated statement and arguments she made were very upsetting to me, someone who at the time was very proud of having just learned the concept.

    In the moment, I had the same reaction as you. Shortly thereafter, my mom - who was not at all a fan of that teacher - took my brother and me out of public school and we started homeschool.


  • That’s true! However, I don’t like “what” there - friend or no, he was a who, not a what. I just couldn’t write “who I thought was a friend,” though reading it now it seems okay. Ah well; I’m no novelist, so feel free to claim the quote for yourself if you’d like.