Davis: I used to think that secrets were like evil twins – something it was possible in theory to have, but nobody actually had one. In my sophomore year of college, one of my friends asked “Want to hear a secret?” and I said “Don’t be silly, secrets don’t really exist.”
Julia: When I was little, I thought the stars were a metaphor, something poets wrote about to inspire people. It wasn’t until I got glasses in second grade that I realized they were actually up there and everyone could see them.
Julia lives out in the country, I guess.
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Im sorry what is “the Box”?
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That is the nickname for the house in Berkeley where I live with some friends.
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There must have been some awesome conversation goin on.
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Is this part of a series? Did I miss an earlier installment? What’s going on here? :p
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I heard so much about “passion” in the context of something you have to say to make yourself look good that I didn’t realize until college that there were people who were actually interested in things.
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That is tragic.
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I always wondered who this “Ed” fellow was who wrote all my comics…
I think I’m missing something about this, since I have no idea what the title refers to.
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For a long time, I wondered who “‘Nuff” was, and what he had said.
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I feel pretty sure that I’ve heard that quote about secrets before, but I can’t remember whence.
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I know that secrets exist and that people have them. You don’t hear about the ones that are actually kept! They aren’t as rare as you think.
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I’m amazed that somebody could think that secrets don’t exist until college. How could Davis live that long without accruing a secret? Did none of the following ever happen?
• got an F on an assignment and tried to hide it from your parents
• had a hidden place at school or in the neighborhood that you liked to go to or hide things in
• both masturbated and tried to hide that fact from your parents
• had a password or a lock combination
Was Davis referring to a special type of secret that is bigger than those examples?
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I think you may be overestimating the commonness of some of those.
I would guess they didn’t think of passwords and such as “secrets”, though, yeah.
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Spot on with this write-up, I seriously think this amazing site needs a lot
more attention. I’ll probably be back again to read through more, thanks for the info!
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It looks like the spambots have followed from LJ.
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On the one hand, this was clearly written without reference to the post in question.
On the other hand, I can’t figure out how they expect this to lead us to their website or whatever. Very odd.
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Reminds me a bit of http://xkcd.com/810/ 😀
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Guests could not tell where the lovely scent was coming from, and although they asked, I never gave away the hidden fragrance.
The city was teeming with not just vehicles, but human traffic too.
The fundament you around box, belt which be proper of thrifty who are lactose-intolerant.
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