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INSIDE OF CIRCUS TENT RUBY and MITCH (two teenagers, perhaps no more than 17) are standing around a roped-off area; above them a group of …
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Quality Over Quantity
Remember elementary school when everybody knew each other? We all played the same games and went to the same birthday parties, and, with the exception …
The Truth About Relationships: What We Forget
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