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This is serious!
6/8/08 12:35John Green and Maureen Johnson at the Union Square B&N, TONIGHT. How did I not know about this? (Answer: it was announced about 12 hours ago.)
6/8/08
August 6th
6/8/08 20:58Today is the 53rd anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima.
For ten months I lived in Nagasaki; for ten months I tried to make myself visit the atomic bomb museum, and couldn't manage to do it. I thought I had so much time, but suddenly the last few months turned into a rough blur of falling down a flight of stairs, and nearly failing out of my literature class.
Three years ago, when I found myself volunteering to help with a peace memorial in Carrboro, I found Kurihara Sadako's poem "Umashimen ka na."
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For ten months I lived in Nagasaki; for ten months I tried to make myself visit the atomic bomb museum, and couldn't manage to do it. I thought I had so much time, but suddenly the last few months turned into a rough blur of falling down a flight of stairs, and nearly failing out of my literature class.
Three years ago, when I found myself volunteering to help with a peace memorial in Carrboro, I found Kurihara Sadako's poem "Umashimen ka na."
( Read more... )