Ok, Pooh, what else would one call a teenager's 'blurt'?
I lived in England for two years while going to film school. I lived in Australia for six (so I had to learn to spell colour and tyre both ways). I've been a "student of English" most of my life. I write sometimes. I was a communication studies major in college with side interests in anthropology and linguistics. So now you know a little about me
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Back on topic:
My daughter is more interested in the sciences and wants to become a CSI. She attended a summer program at a university outside D. C. last summer for that. She has very little interest, academically, in the liberal arts in spite of being an avid reader since the age of 10. I'm grateful for the existence of the Kindle because she's getting some education in that area without even knowing it
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