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Chapter 7: Golden Job, Golden Ticket

Chapter 7: Golden Job, Golden Ticket

Sometime around the first of October, when the last of the magical cicadas had expired and the trees were once again quiet, I realized I…
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Amber Fraley
Chapter 6: Mattie & Shirley

Chapter 6: Mattie & Shirley

Mattie’s dorm room was decorated with all his favorite movie posters, most of which were old, like, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and…
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Amber Fraley
Chapter 5: Diaries and Dildos

Chapter 5: Diaries and Dildos

Once in a while our RA Cheyenne scheduled a floor meeting to discuss some matter or another — noise after hours, leaving huge messes in the…
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Amber Fraley
Chapter 4: Flora and Carrie

Chapter 4: Flora and Carrie

You might be wondering what career path one can look forward to with an entomology degree. There are a few options, and I honestly wasn’t…
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Amber Fraley
Chapter 3: Wonderful Watson

Chapter 3: Wonderful Watson

Watson Library was like something out of my dreams. My good dreams. First of all, it looked like what I imagined a European cathedral…
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Amber Fraley
Chapter 1: Magicidada

Chapter 1: Magicidada

As I passed through the doors of Oliver Hall to the outdoors, I was engulfed by two sensations: one, the blast of heat like opening an oven…
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Amber Fraley
Chapter 2: Life in Oz

Chapter 2: Life in Oz

How’s life in Oz?” That’s the text I woke up to a few days later, from my boyfriend Zach who was attending school at the University of…
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