Monthly Archives: November 2007 Countless times I have mentioned that I have a policy of not accepting gifts. I began my gift refusal during the Christmas of my sophomore year of high school. I was full of teen angst, and offended by the way gift giving was practiced in my family. Growing up, we were given a deadline date... I buried Masha yesterday. I buried her in the cemetery beside Natasha, my only other pet—also a beautiful tarantula. Here lies Countess Natalya Ilynichna Rostova, who ate lots of crickets, loved walking around the dorms, and danced in her twilight years. Beside her lies the young Maria Nikolaevna Polozova, who never made it to her... |
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