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Seven Simple Truths about the First Week of School

September/October 2005

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Seven Simple Truths about the First Week of School

Diane Thornton

  1. Gray-haired fathers can carry alarmingly large boxes.
  2. Every student in organic chemistry still has a shot at an A.
  3. Somewhere in Branner, a future married couple meets.
  4. Math 41 has 100 percent attendance. For a day or two.
  5. Bicycling near the clock tower, the phrase "kiss the pavement" becomes all too real.
  6. MemChu, FloMo and the CoHo are unfamiliar NoMo.
  7. On the way home, Mom will stop crying somewhere around Bakersfield.

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