December 2011
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by gene demby
when I was in HS, i had one of those stupid, debilitating crushes on Monique Clark — one of those deals where you really, really wanted to be around that person but actually being around that person sent you into a mild panic. She was hyperfocused and intense and sobbed once after she got a bad grade on a test. We sat next to each other for a whole year in Mr. Rowland’s...
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Birds, we are told, build their nests by instinct, while man constructs his dwelling by the exercise of reason.