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Let’s take stock of our year, shall we?

We managed to turn a high school kid into a college kid (and if you don’t think that’s a goal, you have not been paying attention.)

We pursued a big dream, a scary one, and spent six weeks in New Hampshire proving that we weren’t silly for dreaming this dream.

We lost weight!

We played division one at nationals, and managed to achieve our two primary goals: don’t embarrass ourselves and stay away from cameras.

We found music again. (And thanks, Santa, for the blues studies!)

We survived roller coasters and didn’t throw up or give up.

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Zinnia said…
"we" managed to conquer fear and ride scary ponies! we managed to go from, "Oh my god, she's walking FASTER!" to "Cut the crap, you little shit, now GO and quit that pesky bucking."
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