For anyone in the mood for a wild story about fate and love, the strangest thing just happened in our home.
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I’m doing a virtual event at Politics & Prose for my book tonight. And my mom just remembered that 20 years ago, I wrote a glowing piece about Politics & Prose for my high school newspaper.
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I’m staying with my parents for the pandemic. They’re helping with the baby. And my mom is a scrupulous archivist of my childhood. So we found a copy of the story. Here it is:pic.twitter.com/NrT32DIXpV
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Fun, right? Then we turn the page.
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Someone named Zach Carter has written a scathing review of a Cure album.pic.twitter.com/EEvFkngyww
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I did not know
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He is my husband. And we just published books on the same day this week, twenty years after his first byline, in tjTODAY, our high school newspaper.
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Moral of the story: Long live high school journalism. And you can register for my event here.https://www.crowdcast.io/e/jly-mighty-tide …
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Wait, how did you not know another high school newspaper staff member?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
This was his only byline! I only discovered today that the entertainment editor gave him an inflated title to get him to write more reviews. I should’ve been running a tighter ship.
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