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Fitting in to College
A US college student, who’s blog I follow, titled her piece: I regret to inform you all that I miss high school. Athena Scalzi, on her blog Whatever, (Dec 16, 2020) received 87 comments, most of them lengthy, over two days. Her readers are mostly older nerds and science fiction fans. Smart, I mean. Yet […]