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And then, but not just yet...
“So does this mean I’m your boyfriend now?? “What?” Her eyes do a quick search for something in his, “Of course not, no, I could never break up with Brett.” “But we just made out for, like, an hour.” “Ah, that was nothing. That was just us being friendly. We tried to study, the sun and the warm breeze and the people of the park made us do it. You’re ok with that, right?” “Yeah, sure, I’m ok with that.” “But I would like it if you’d write me while I’m gone.” “Where are you going?” “My family goes to Hawaii during the summer, remember?” “Oh yeah, I still have your postcard from last year on my...
Mental Arithmetic Error
Dr. Sheng is a world-renowned expert in grain planting. Once I was with her to the south for an academic conference, and I had a casual chat with her on the way. She confided to me a little secret from her childhood. She said that she had been troubled by one thing she did when she was a child, and the more she achieved in her career, the more she felt that she was a big liar, and she couldn’t forgive herself. That was in the 1960s when her pet name was Ayee. Ayee’s parents were far away from home. They gave birth to five children in a row. Life was too harsh, so they sent three of them to the...
Did You Know Them?
“What do you want? Candy?” Derek asked, smacking a piece of spearmint gum between his teeth, some pop punk band blaring over his car stereo. Felix, sitting completely still in the middle of the road on his bicycle, stared at him with a bored expression. They’d been engaged in said stare-off for about five minutes at that point, Derek intermittenedly laying on his horn to try and usher the boy out of the road. This also wasn’t the first time they had crossed paths, in fact, these run-ins between the two were becoming more and more common.“You sound like a pedophile!” Felix called back after a m...
Infinitely Human
Mankind will never be able to truly understand the infinite. Man sees the ocean and calls the horizon infinite even though we have maps www.onedoor.ccof its finality. Certainly they can place infinity in terms of a mathematical concept and they have labeled things like the universe itself as infinite. Yet if you were to ask them to hold that infinity in their mind, to imagine what it might be like to move in a direction past the speed of light and never run out of room to fly, their ape brains fail and they return to their comfortable, finite tools and concepts. This is why man is awed when faced with infin...