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Dangling Modifiers and Sell-By Dates (opens the original)
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And so it goes:In your life you will move to a new place. Millions of new people move to new places every year. I think. That number feels true.In that new place you will spend what feels like so much money trying to reestablish your routine. You’ll make your staple recipes in a kitchen that is yours, you pay for it, you live there, but you have to stumble your way around it like a newborn, slick baby calf.Your pumpkin orzo will taste different, because you don’t have your old grocery store near
Your Unemployed Friend on a Tuesday Afternoon (opens the original)
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Once upon a time, a woman left her job to enroll in graduate school. The general zeitgeist considers graduate school, especially graduate school for creative writing, to be a great embarrassment and humiliation ritual unless it is for one of a few very specific Fully Funded Programs. And, at once, attending graduate school for a Master of Fine Arts is seen by some as the death knell of a writer and by others as the only option to write a Serious Novel. This woman saw both sides of this discussio
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