"Tell us about your summer!," I can hear my high school English teacher chirp on the first day back. Ah, the dreaded writing prompt. Funny that I still think in those terms: put brackets around this season of your life! Define it! Tell us what you accomplished! Did you live a little?! Make it interesting! But S…
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