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He glanced out the bright windows, then boomed, “Even the sunshine is somber today, brothers and sisters, when we see Miss Myrt Arbuckle on her final journey, as she swaps semesters for eternity.”
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Fourth-year student McKenna Steinbeck had moments of regret in her first semester.
By the end of her first semester, Ms. Blume finished what would, in 1969, become her first published book: “The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo.”
I remember it clearly because I used this as an example in the principles of management class I taught that semester at Penn State University Berks.
Maybe things with Rachel would be better tomorrow, with a fresh semester starting.
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