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"If I die before my dog, let him see my body.
He understands death; if he feels my death he can cry for me.
If he doesn't see me again he will think I abandoned him and he will continue waiting for my return."
-- Unknown


Oncology tells me to keep looking at my feet.

They're on this side of the ground. Despite years of lenten Wednesdays I have not returned to dust.


The PA asks that I fill out…

When I was at boarding school (why did you send me away at age ten, Dad?) we had to polish our shoes every day, and there was an inspection at assembly every morning. Now it wasn't like an army inspection, no-one seemed to expect a high polish, but Sunday was different as we all had to go to church and the inspection was more vigorous. Woe betide any boy who didn't have a well-shined pair of shoes. Because of this, the boys spent exra time Saturday evenings, buffing and spit-shining. The masters

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Siege engineer and fencer, 1560-1622. He wrote a treatise on rapier fencing and combat on horseback, published in 1587, which is obscure but interesting. It is unusual, to say the least, for a 27-year-old to write a fencing treatise. Capo Ferro was 51; Giganti tells us that he had been teaching fencing for 28 years before publishing his first book, longer than Ghisliero had even been alive. The 1570s and 1580s were also a strange era for the art of fencing; the Italian rapier

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In hip-hop parlance, a woman who lives the life and promotes the culture surrounding breakdancing.

“The most difficult part of being a B-Girl I would say it's showcasing who we are, truly, in a male-dominated scene…”
-- B-Girl Vanessa

The term b-girl was derived somewhere around 1974 in Bronx basements by DJ Kool Herc, of course, from break (or beat) girl. Going

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