Beautiful girlfriend: I thought you liked me for my personality.
Realistic boyfriend: It’s okay.
Overheard on Firestone A Floor
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Spoilers Ahead: Riverdale Season 2 is a Soap Opera for a Younger Audience
In this new season, Riverdale’s soapy plot and neon-lit diner is su used with violence and vigilantism.
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Monumento Mori
“Commemorating those who died in the American Civil War, and the consequences of a selective memory.”
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White Noise
“I look at him. He doesn’t look at me. Just stares straight ahead. He shuts his eyes for a moment, and at first I’m afraid he’s not going to open them again.”
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An Imaginary Collection
“I sometimes wonder, would you be able to reconstruct some image of me through the objects I’ve left behind? Would you know what I looked like? Smelled like? How I acted in public and in private?”
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Lines from Love Notes or Breakup Texts
“You’re not the kind of guy people usually date. I’m not the kinda person that people usually love.”
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Nothing Recycled
“Last spring, five Princeton undergraduates founded Woke Wednesdays, a podcast dedicated to issues of race on Ivy League campuses and across America.”
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Farmers and Princeton Against Hunger
“Eight-hundred pounds of beautiful Arkansas Black apples later, we took off our gloves. Some wiped off their foreheads. We squinted at each other in the sun, smiling.”
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Nothing On the Inside
“It all stopped, very suddenly, for Robert Bailey, just before his 31st birthday. One moment he was thinking, remembering things, talking silently and invisibly in his head—in other words, he was altogether active, interiorly speaking, and then it stopped.”
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Thanksgiving
“We pass it every year, the way the parade passes. Then we arrive home with the last notes of the song, evidence against our staying power, our packaging, upon return, found intact.”
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Dorothy Cochran’s Four Pieces of Advice to Young Artists
“One afternoon, Dorothy Cochran—New Jerseyite, artist, septuagenarian, self-described pied piper—was walking through the Montclair Art Museum, where she has been teaching a printmaking class since 2010.”
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Hotovely’s Excursion in the Orange Bubble
“Princeton is a university that cares deeply about free speech. However, Princeton, much like the CJL, at least suggests the idea that it does believe in limits to free speech.”
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