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Marriage begins for Bruce and Laurie
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Didn't ask to be born, but it happened!
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Mom and dad move us to Orange County from Westchester, LA.
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Bill Clinton is elected and my dad is happy.
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My brother is born. At this time, and for the next eighteen years or so, I do not consider this person a best friend, let alone a friend.
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Dad walks me into the wrong Kindergarten class and embarrassment ensues.
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Thus begins my hatred for sports
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I bond with my loving first grade teacher, who sadly dies from a heart attack only a few months into the school year.
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We get Pebbles, a beautiful Australian Shepard.
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Enroll in theater camp and discover that I like theater much better than sports.
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A couple of boys invite me to play basketball and I totally suck. Another instance of me realizing my hate for sports.
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I fall on the playground when I take a risky jump and sprain my back. I laid on my back while an ambulence was called and I was ushered off to the hospital. Luckily, when I got home, I got to stay in bed and watch TV and eat Subway.
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Piper the dog dies while I'm at science camp. I had a lot of fun at science camp, though.
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The struggle begins.
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Terrorism comes to America and I still go to school that day.
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We get Kali, a ball of fluff Chow-mixed-with-Yellow-Lab.
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I gain some weight, and then I just keep gaining the weight.
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I perform a lipsink to En Vogue's "Free Your Mind" with some friends, not knowing that it was actually very embarrassing and a bad idea. I wore a hot pink shirt that was too tight.
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Three family members die, leading me to many funerals and questions about god.
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I "become a woman" but I really just read from an old piece of parchment and get to have a really big party.
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I also join a theater program at my high school
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I cry hard and push my feet into the dashboard as my dad drives me home.
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I wait a few weeks and take the test again. I almost fail, getting 13 out of 15, but it's a pass!
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Parents split up and tell my brother and I while we are watching the 40 Year Old Virgin.
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Geoff joins SOCSA and our friendship gets to a slow start.
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I do not attend my senior prom, even though there's someone I want to go with.
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Obama is elected, I am very happy.
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I get my little chubby heart broken by my first boyfriend. We went out for two and a half months but I always tell people it was three.
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I attend Berkeley in the spring of 2009, starting on the best four years of my life, thus far.
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I join the college improv team, jericho! My commitment to the group is best described as unwavering.
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Phone goes off in my Anthropology final, which was a huge lecture-hall type class. I'm mortified.
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I spend a summer in Chicago at an improv theater taking classes. I meet two good friends, Judith and Ellie.
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Geoff joins jericho! copying me once again. Our friendship grows.
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I graduate from UC Berkeley and soon thereafter, head to Europe to study in Vienna. I also see Paris, Zurich, Halstatt, Prague, Budapest, Munich, Berlin, and Amsterdam.
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Obama is re-elected and I am still happy.
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Pebbles dies :(
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I graduate from UCB (an improv theater initialed the same as UC Berkeley). I meet my boyfriend Mike in my final class at UCB and we start dating when class ends.
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Get a sweet apartment in Chinatown. My friend Michael moves in and, later, Mike moves in too.