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Forgetting My Own Beam

Forgetting My Own Beam

One summer evening when we lived in Plymouth, my family had opportunity to invite over some dear friends to spend some time swimming in the swimming pool shared by our town house association. Now the family we invited over had five children too most of which were almost identical in age to our children; we also had another thing in common, we were both loud. As we enjoyed the evening in the pool, the children of course were using their “outside…

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Clinton Selfie

Clinton Selfie

Dear famous person, If we want to be seen with you, we’ll turn our backs on you. Please don’t be offended. It’s just that your fame isn’t enough for us anymore. We need to attach ourselves to your fame, so that we can post the resulting picture to Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. That way, we achieve our own sort of mini-fame. Which could be the maximal fame we ever attain.