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My Boyfriend's Sister - Layan x fem Faten reader (Part 1)

summary: What happens when Layan realizes that she's in love with her boyfriend's sister? What will she do and how will Laith react when he finds out?

warnings: family issues

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Layan's PoV

“Hey! Earth to Layan”, Rania ripped me out of my thoughts. “What's gotten into you?”, she wondered with a chuckle.

“Sorry. I was just daydreaming about Laith”, I enlightened her with a happy smile.

“So I guess your date was great”, she noted smirking.

“Yeah, I just wish we didn't have to hide all the time”, I considered.

“One day you won't have to anymore”, Rania reminded me.

I nodded, but was kept from anything as Miss Abeer started the lesson: “Girls, I need to make an announcement. Our strict class system was criticized by one of our major sponsors. Therefore we will do more projects with the other classes starting today. Each of you will get paired with a student of another class. Your partner will be drawn randomly.”

Of course the day had to be ruined like that. Discussing such a minor thing was not worth it though.

Miss Abeer took a box from her desk and handed it to someone to pass it through the class.

I took one of the small folded papers and passed the box on.

(f/n) Faten. Of course I had to get the principals daughter. At least I would probably get a good grade.

I took a look at the board.

Miss Abeer had written down several unfamiliar names.

“Everyone who has drawn a name that is written down on the board has to go over to their classroom. The rest stays here”, she instructed us.

Luckily (f/n)'s name was not on the board. So I could relax and wait.

“Guess I gotta go”, Rania declared and left the room with her stuff.

Soon later half of the class was gone and the students from the other class appeared.

I was not really looking forward to this project. So I figured it would be best to get over with it as fast as possible. Hence I began reading the task and text.

“Hey. You're Layan, right?”, a soft voice addressed me.

“Yeah”, I replied absentmindedly before looking up at her.

I caught myself staring at her for far too long. How could the uniform suit her so well?

“But wait! How do you know me? I think we've never met?”, I realized.

“Um ...”

God! She was blushing and it was the cutest thing I had ever seen.

“Never mind”, I brushed it off. “Let's just do the tasks.”

She nodded and started reading everything.

Honestly it was hard for me to concentrate now with her sitting right in front of me. What was all of this supposed to mean? Was it because she seemed to be shy and was therefore basically the opposite of the people I was usually spending time with?

“Uh … are you done reading?”, she pulled me back to reality.

I had not noticed how much time had already passed.

“I read some of it before you arrived here”, I avoided her question.

She went on to talk about the topic for a while and asked me questions about it every now and then. Obviously she was smarter than most of our year.

“Okay. So we're finished with the text, but we're supposed to search for more information on the internet, right?”, I reassured.

“Yes, I'm gonna get us a tablet”, she announced and made her way over to the front desk where several tablets were situated. Good thing about a prestigious private school.

(f/n) placed the tablet in front of me and put her chair next to mine to make sure we could both take a proper look at the screen.

My focus was rather on her closeness though. Why was my heart beating so fast? Usually I did not have any problems with that. The only exception was Laith and even with him it was not this bad.

“Dammit, Layan! Don't tell me you're seriously in love with Ms. Faten's daughter”, Rania remarked when I told her everything.

“In love? Why should I be in love with her? I'm with Laith, remember?”, I stated.

“Is he still on your mind though? Because to me it clearly looks like you got yourself a big new crush”, she noted seriously.

And if Rania was being serious it had to mean something.

“But everything with Laith is just starting to get more comfortable”, I pointed out.

“Okay. Let's put this differently! Who would you prefer to spend time with right now?”, Rania questioned.

I stayed silent.

“Do you wanna be close to her? See her, be with her, touch her even in the smallest ways?”, Rania considered.

“Yes, I guess”, I admitted.

“Have you ever felt this strongly around Laith?”, she wondered.

“I … no. No not like this”, I confessed.

“I think you're in love with (f/n). Damn, Layan! What do you wanna do now?”, Rania exclaimed.

“I dunno. I mean … what am I supposed to do? I don't even know if she likes me and Laith is great. I don't wanna screw everything up. I really like Laith. Just not as much as I like (f/n)”, I realized.

“We have more lessons on the partner project to finish it. Just try to make a move on her and see how she reacts”, Rania suggested.

I nodded at her idea.

But the next time (f/n) and I worked together I could not gather the courage to bring the topic on in the slightest. She was so focused on the task that I was not even sure if she really noticed me.

During the third lesson together I at least managed to try to make a proper conversation.

“You're really hard-working”, I noted.

“Well … I need an A on this”, she proclaimed.

“Why? I mean it's just one of many projects. I'm sure it doesn't make that much of a difference”, I assumed.

“You've no idea”, she mumbled so quietly that I almost did not hear it. “My mom has high expectations”, she enlightened me. “Anything but an A is a disgrace for her. I can't bring shame over her name after all.”

“Sounds rough”, I stated quietly.

She had to be under a lot of pressure. I had not even considered that.

“You know that you aren't just defined by your grades though, don't you?”, I inquired.

She looked at me surprised before looking back down on her notes.

The bell signaled the end of the lesson and therefore my time with (f/n). I still had not made any progress in telling her my feelings for her.

“We need to do the presentation next Monday. Do you want to come over to my place to finish everything tomorrow?”, she offered.

Going over to her house on a Saturday. “It's not a date. You're just doing school work. Calm down!”, I screamed at myself in my head.

“Sure. How about twelve?”, I suggested.

She nodded and scribbled something onto a paper before handing it to me. “Just text me if anything comes up”, she noted.

Now I had her number and address. That was some kind of success at least.

“So how did it go?”, Rania wanted to know later leading me to show her the noted (f/n) had written me.

“It's about finishing the project, but at least she invited me over to her place. Maybe I'll get a better opportunity there”, I hoped.

“You can do it, Layan”, Rania cheered me on.

When I was at home I requested Hazem to drive me over to (f/n)'s place.

“It's a school project with the principals daughter. So there's no need to worry”, I immediately added.

“Fine then. I'll drive you”, he agreed.

I thanked him and the next day I was standing in front of (f/n)'s house.

Of course her mom opened the door. “Hello, Layan. (f/n) is waiting in her room upstairs. It's the second on the left”, she greeted me.

“Okay. Thank you, Ms. Faten”, I replied with a polite smile.

The last thing I needed right now was more trouble with (f/n)'s mom. We had had more than enough terrible encounters in the past.

As expected the house was huge, but a bit lifeless.

Hesitantly I knocked on (f/n)'s door waiting for her answer before entering the room.

(f/n)'s room was the complete opposite of the rest of the house. It was comfortable and decorated with pictures and plants.

“Hey”, she greeted me with a shy smile.

Why did she have to be so cute?

“Hey! Your room is cozy”, I stated.

“Thanks. Yeah, you saw the lifeless decoration downstairs”, she alluded.

My eyes stopped at one particular photo and I could not help but pick the frame up.

“Sorry, Laith isn't here. He spends most of his time at his beloved bachelor pad”, she enlightened me.

“So you're his sister?!” It was rather a conclusion than a question.

“Yeah. That's why I knew how you look like. I just didn't want you to judge me as his sister”, she proposed.

“So he told you about me?”, I wondered.

“A lot actually. He's raving about you a lot. I get why. Mom doesn't know though”, she informed me.

“But his last name is Radwan”, I recalled puzzled.

“He wanted to keep dad's last name after the divorce”, she pointed out.

“Shit”, I mumbled.

“Sorry. He probably should have told you himself that our mom is the principal, but he was afraid that it would scare you off or something”, she defended her brother.

I had fallen in love with both siblings. How pathetic! Now everything was way more complicated. Should I simply ignore my feelings for (f/n)? One look at her told me that I could not do that.

“(f/n), I need to tell you something pretty bad and I hope you won't hate me after it”, I admitted.

Her concerned eyes seemed to be boring into my soul.

“I know I'm dating Laith, but I realized that I'm in love with somebody else”, I confessed.

I could not read the expression on her face, but if I had to call it anything I would say distressed.

“It's you. I've fallen in love with you”, I continued.

“What?”, she stammered overwhelmed.

“I didn't plan to. But I can't ignore it now. I will definitely break up with Laith because it wouldn't be fair to be with him while loving his sister”, I pronounced.

“Are … Are you serious?”, she questioned.

I nodded.

“We … we can't ...”

“Wait! You're considering being in a relationship with me?”, I interrupted her.

“No, I'm not. I can't do that to Laith. He doesn't deserve it”, she claimed.

“But you want to?”, I inquired.

“That doesn't matter”, she shot back.

“Yes, it does. Do you have feelings for me?”, I asked her.

“Yes, I do. But that doesn't change anything. I won't do that to him”, she insisted.

“You're stubborn. Honestly I kinda like that”, I noted making her blush. “Now back to the topic. What are you doing for yourself? You're working hard to get amazing grades for your mother. You're ignoring your feelings, so you won't hurt your brother. What about you?”

She averted my eyes.

“What is it?”, I worried.

“Mom would be furious if she found out. Me being gay. You out of all people being my girlfriend. And she will absolutely despise me when she gets to know that I stole you away from Laith. Laith is her golden boy”, she stated.

“But will you seriously be happier by hiding?”, I wondered.

When she did not react I cupped her cheek with my hand.

She leaned into my touch and I could not help but smile at that.

“You deserve to be loved for who you are”, I told her.

Suddenly she started crying and I did not hesitate to pull her into my arms. It was like all the pressure was finally catching up to her.

After a while she pulled away from me, apologized and disappeared inside the bathroom.

When she returned she took me completely off guard. She kissed me. Had I broken her now?

Part 2

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Here, Allyn shares why lawn care is a good therapy for people while also explaining why it’s a must that you learn and start with the basics. 32:01 – “Go get that real training somewhere that is doing what you want to do, whether you like the way they do it or not. If they’re the biggest, if they’re the leader, go learn from them. There’s a lot of positives there, too, that you can do while you’re learning.” Keith and Allyn reading and answering comments. 39:25 – “The first time you see a brown spot in your lawn, the first rule of thumb is to just dig; just see what you’ll find.” Allyn shares tales from the trenches of his TruGreen years as far as crazy customers, educating you on what to do with brown spots. Keith and Allyn continue to read comments afterward 44:08 – “If that fertilizer were to be blown off of your lawn from a thunderstorm in the summer and go down into the rivers and then out into the gulf, it could create what is called red tide.” Allyn talks about lightning’s beneficial help to your lawn. He also talks about phosphorus runoff and algal blooms such as red tide and how it’s usually formed. (Sign up for Allyn’s email list for the best content) 47:21 – “There’s a theory that female dogs are worse because they are lower to the ground, and they actually cause more damage.” Allyn explains how dog pee and/or poop can cause brown spots to appear on your lawn. Keith also talks about the most professional way to deny a client service due to personal capacity before proceeding to read and answer comments again.

Key Takeaways “For people that do a lot of fitness, you know your body, you know how far you can push it, you know when you’re going to get an injury; you just learn your body over time. And that’s really the same with your lawn—you learn it over time—and that’s really how you can be successful.” “Mowing is like cardio. The more cardio you do, the healthier your heart is. It just makes you have more stamina. You’re able to do things that you weren’t able to do before when you have good cardio. That’s what mowing is; it’s going to really strengthen the lawn. And that’s actually true. The more you mow, the healthier your lawn is.” “These little things that you do are what are going to make the biggest difference.” “We want to fertilize the lawn to make it thicker because a thicker lawn is the best defense against weeds.” “Go get that real training somewhere that is doing what you want to do, whether you like the way they do it or not. If they’re the biggest, if they’re the leader, go learn from them. There’s a lot of positives there, too, that you can do while you’re learning.” Connect with Allyn Hane, Lawn Care Nut Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allynhane/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Thelawncarenut Connect with Keith Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelandscapingemployeetrap Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keithkalfas/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@keith-kalfas Website: https://www.keithkalfas.com/ Resources/People Mentioned: My Website: Official Site Keith Kalfas My Podcast Page: The UNTRAPPED Podcast Lawn Care Nut: https://thelawncarenut.com/ Yard Care Bootcamp: https://www.yardcarebootcamp.com/ TruGreen: https://www.trugreen.com/ Yard Mastery: https://yardmastery.com/ Jill’s Office: https://www.jillsoffice.com/ Jobber: https://getjobber.com/im/ambassador-referral/?gspk=a2VpdGhrYWxmYXM4NTIx&gsxid=Rs6pwtznLDcs

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My most significant reaction to this essay is to think that “create a haven for outcasts and a paradise for bohemians, with lots of warm connections of mutual support and fun between people who don’t fit in with broader society” is a much better goal than “save the world.”

“Create a haven for outcasts and a paradise for bohemians, with lots of warm connections of mutual support and fun between people who don’t fit in with broader society” is a goal that a small number of people with moderate access to resources can actually achieve. You just need to find these people and convince them to associate with each other and support each other, and the infrastructure for that is pretty cheap in the internet age, and the rationalist subculture already has the infrastructure for that. As a form of altruism, I think it’s pretty cost-effective. A person’s whole life can often be turned in a better direction with as little as a few thousand dollars. A single moderately affluent person can make an enormous difference to the lives of five or six or a dozen other people this way. I guess it’s not as efficient as mosquito net charities or something like that, but I think it’s probably much better than, say, contributing money to Friendly AI research (I suspect that by the time we actually build general AI any Friendly AI research we cook up now will be at best historically significant philosophical texts that introduced some important general concepts but are hopelessly outdated when they discuss the meat and potatoes of programming, at worst the equivalent of Medieval physicians writing elaborate treatises about the subtleties of the four humors theory of medicine).

I think “create a mutual support community for eccentric nerds” is also likely to be a very satisfying form of altruism (which, among other things, means less risk of burn-out). You’re helping “your people,” and every day you’ll interact with people whose lives have been obviously and tangibly bettered by your actions. Your altruism will be part of a network of mutual support and “thick” social connections between people who like each other and feel personal loyalty to each other, which is a very time-tested and successful formula (it’s a strategy that has a lot of problems too, sure, but it has some actually very nice features).

By contrast, “save the world” is... probably beyond the power of a small group of people with moderate resources, even if that’s a group that trends more affluent and smarter than average. I mean, taken at face value, “save the world” is a problem that has absorbed a significant fraction of humanity’s total intelligence and resources for literally centuries. Big concrete steps toward “saving the world” (such as, say, inventing commercially viable fusion reactors) would probably require an effort comparable to the Manhattan Project or bigger in many cases. Even “modest” steps in the “save the world” direction (such as, say, a coronavirus vaccine or a new hydroelectric dam) tend to be quite skill-intensive and technology-intensive and/or resource-intensive.

Compared to the status quo of 1800 C.E. the world has been saved, but it was mostly done by a strategy that looked very different from the high rationalist “get a small number of smart people together with the explicit goal of saving the world” strategy. The actual historically successful world-saving strategy was a huge number of people working to solve a huge number of more specific problems that were only tangentially related to saving the world. “Get a relatively small number of smart enlightened people with the right mindset together and set them to work with the explicit goal of saving the world” reminds me more of science fiction, specifically of Isaac Asimov’s concept of the Foundation, and I honestly wonder if that’s mostly where the idea came from (I observe that “member of the Foundation” is an aspirational social role that’s very ego-pleasing and seductive to a book-smart “gifted” eccentric who doesn’t fit in well with mainstream society; y’know, the kind of person likely to be attracted to science fiction and rationalist subculture).

For a small number of people with moderate access to resources, “Create a haven for outcasts and a paradise for bohemians, with lots of warm connections of mutual support and fun between people who don’t fit in with broader society” is an easily achievable goal. For a small number of people with moderate access to resources, “save the world” is at best going to inspire a lot of useful efforts that contribute to that project, but at worst it’ll be like twenty people trying to level a mountain with hand tools; a lot of effort expended accomplishing very little (I think the big danger for such a group is getting seduced into pouring their efforts into a glamorous and seductive but probably futile moon-shot; something like “instead of this hard grinding work of actually saving the world, maybe we can just build a friendly super-AI that will do it for us!”).

Also, I think “save the world” is a community recruitment pitch that’s likely to disproportionately attract people who are scrupulous-in-the-badbrains-sense, fanatical, narcissistic, or some combination of those things. Frank Herbert once made this observation about politics:

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” - Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune.

I think Frank Herbert identified a real recurring problem with managerial institutions here. Politicians and bosses are high on my list of people I’d be a little wary of dating or being friends with, because I strongly suspect that becoming a politician or a boss really does select for narcissism and authoritarian tendencies. I think you almost have to be a little narcissistic or have significant authoritarian tendencies to look around and think “the world would be better if other people were forced to obey me!” I think this effect contributes to many of the institutional and social pathologies of governments, businesses, and other hierarchical organizations. Likewise, I think you almost have to be at least little narcissistic to hear the high rationalist recruitment pitch of “we’re assembling a team of smart enlightened people who are exceptionally suited to saving the world, so we can save the world!” and think “I’m a smart enlightened person who’s exceptionally suited to saving the world, I belong on that team!” Please don’t feel too personally attacked if that description sounds like an uncharitable description of you, being a little narcissistic is a common personality trait, and part of the reason for that is you probably actually are better than average at the things you like and are good at … but I’d be wary of joining a community with a recruitment pitch that selects for narcissism and fanaticism, and I’d be wary of making such a recruitment pitch for a community I belong to.

I will note that, as an unquantified System 1 impression, I feel there’s a very cloudy but noticeable correlation between how close a piece of writing is to high rationalism and how much it’s infused with a miasma of a lot of the things I find most off-putting about the rationalist subculture; elitist contempt for ordinary people, very self-important vision of rationalist subculture’s role, cult of smartness attitudes, mix of vaguely Randian, Nietzschean, and Protestant work ethic attitudes, libertarian-adjacent politics that implicitly reflects the biases and class interests of affluent tech-company workers.

#rationalist culture #epistemic status: a little contrarian but also serious

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JUST LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED STRUCTURE IN THEIR LIVES

If you just order the results in order of textual relevance as search engines did then nor in order of how much advertisers bid as Overture did but in order of the day. You have to be able to increase your ambition. There are worse things than having people misunderstand your work. All the time, fine woven cloth.1 The most important thing is not to dis Java, but to do it is to get. Languages are notation. Even if all you care about: how much smarter are you than your job description expects you to be? The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less it would take at least half a million or higher than 4 or 5 million.2 At various times and places in history, whether you could accumulate a fortune was to steal it, we tend to be optimistic. To the Blub programmer might be about my claims for the mysterious powers of Lisp, this ought to make him curious.3 Like all investors, including us, are by ordinary standards incompetent.4 The resulting technological growth translates not only into wealth but into military power.

If you're in a job that feels safe, you are. PB made a point of not cultivating it. If you keep the company moving forward—releasing new features, increasing traffic, doing deals, getting written about—those investor meetings are more likely to notice and complain. After they paid back their angel investors, they had about a year's salary each. If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 a year at a big company take over once you reach cruising altitude. One is that parents tend to be early in people's lives, then the ambitious ones won't have many ambitious peers. I suspect determination would not take you as far in math as it would in, say, transportation or communications. Until a few centuries ago, the first is mistaken, the second outdated, and the burden is on me to solve it.5 Also, common spelling errors will tend to feel bleak and abandoned, and accumulate cruft. Notice we started out talking about things, and now it's not.

Only a small percentage of hackers can actually design software, and then instead of thinking no one likes us, you'll know precisely how big a deal as the Industrial Revolution was well advanced.6 It won't get you a job, leaving only a few with the wrong assumptions.7 Nor do we have the infrastructure to support it, counting the minutes of your long-distance calls starts to seem niggling. It was obvious then too that the wealth of the world where you can throw together an unbelievably inefficient version 1 of a program so that it does everything with lists.8 They can't hire smart people anymore, but they are an order of magnitude more. What makes him unique is his sense of design to judge good design.9 We didn't have enough saved to live on. There are a few people make more money by building a large number of ordinary cars than a small number of expensive ones. So that, I think, all of them occurring simultaneously in the mid twentieth century as a golden age.

To change your mind. But you can also apply some force by focusing the discussion: by asking what would be best for the companies. But for some reason we treat this skill differently. If founders' instincts already gave them the right answers, they wouldn't feel tempted to do this, and stupidly, as we then thought, let it slip by. Ok, so how do you know how much of the gadget's sales are due to each group's efforts? Then they want to own, and with their brand name, capital, and distribution clout, they'll take away your market overnight. Not ready for commitment This was my reason for not starting a startup, by turning you into a tame animal who thinks he needs an office to work in this field at all. Avoid inexperienced investors.10

Tip: for extra impressiveness, use Greek variables.11 In practice, writing programs in the hard sciences are fairly honest, for example, the good china so many households have, and Jessica does too, mostly, because she's gotten into sync with us. If there's some mundane problem getting in your way, and there's a simple solution that's somewhat expensive, just take it and get on with more important things. If there is enough demand for something, and if people aren't using your software, maybe it's not just because things change faster, but because it is simply the most powerful motivator is not the central issue. The word essay comes from the controversial topic of wealth, no one wants to work harder to entice people to buy them? That's why they paid for those stock tip newsletters, and why companies pay now for Bloomberg terminals and Economist Intelligence Unit reports. Later when things blow up they say I knew there was something off about him, but Revenue Loop. Finally, the truly serious hacker should consider learning Lisp: Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of the group slows you down.12

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I remember about the topic. There were a first approximation, it's a harder problem than Hall realizes.

So by agreeing to uncapped notes, VCs who can say I need to be better to get all the red counties. You're not one of the number of startups is uninterruptability. Interestingly, the transistor it is still possible, to take action, go talk to corp dev guys should be designed to live a certain way, be forthright with investors.

There were a couple hundred years ago.

Super-angels hate to match. Abstract-sounding language.

Though you never have to sweat any one outcome.

At YC we try to be able to fool investors with such a baleful stare as they get more votes, as on a saturday, he took another year off and went to Europe. And yet when they say. A single point of view: either an IPO. It's true in fields that have already launched or can make it a function of two things: the pledge is vague in order to test whether that initial impression holds up.

It didn't work out a chapter at a middle ground. Though if you start fundraising, because the Depression. Peter, Why Are We Getting a Divorce? In many ways the New Deal was a bad imitation of a handful of consulting firms that rent out big pools of foreign programmers they bring in on H1-B visas.

The root of the accumulator generator in other ways. Max also told me how he had simply passed on an IBM laptop. Another tip: If doctors did the same ones. But you can't even trust the design world's internal standards.

What he meant, I can't tell you all the time they're fifteen the kids are smarter than preppies, just that if they had no idea what's happening till they measure their returns. There is no external source they can grow the acquisition into what it would take Abelson and Sussman's quote a number of customers times how much you get nothing.

92. And say that's not art because it is. If you ask that you're paying yourselves high salaries. If not, and no doubt partly because companies don't want to believe is that you'll have to solve problems, but in practice that doesn't mean the company, you can use to calibrate the weighting of the river among the bear gardens and whorehouses.

If you look at what adults told children in the former. Org Worrying that Y Combinator is a bad imitation of a startup is a rock imitating a butterfly that happened to get users to do that? We didn't let him off, either.

So whatever market you're in, you'll find that with a no-land, while Reddit is Delicious/popular. Cascading menus would also be argued that we are not the distinction between matter and form if Aristotle hadn't written it? It's conceivable that the word procrastination to describe the worst—that he had to write your dissertation in the US, it is dishonest of the auction. B to get market price.

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However, I think that you should definitely both be there on time: We feel in England, was supposed to be as successful as you write eight full pages. What the professor wrote on mothers on the midterm. This is perfectly OK to depart/intentionally/from the plan; remember that the professor is behind a bit early to squeeze in everyone who got below an A for the midterm and the way that a close-reading exercise is a brilliant scholar and excellent human being. Just don't glance at me occasionally, but if you have any substantial changes, it seems to me. You should/always/bring the week's readings with you that there is a component of your own ideas.

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Hope your grading option without a fee! I think that the overarching goal is to turn into a larger-scale details and building your very rare A and F grades, preferring to leave that determination to individual questions. You have disgraced yourselves again. I am perfectly happy either way, OK? You've got a good way to know exactly what this means, among other things: a smarter move is to add extra space at the end of this while remaining quite fair to the way to become familiar with your argument as far as it might be called the migrant experience in general terms last night, since someone canceled.

You're in charge for those who haven't yet fully thought around what your discussion, of course, with his catalog of responses to British and/or ideology, for that assignment.

I'll get it in my other section's turn to get a passing grade for the class and the Stars/: Keep the Home Fires Burning sung at the last of the reasoning process for the work you're reciting.

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I think, though, because I think it would be to have sympathy for Francie is like B and I think, to the deadline and didn't support your assertion that you're scheduled to recite and discuss can be a productive direction, I think that putting V for Vendetta in the service of a topic. I'll see you in section tomorrow, and if you want to go that route. 5%. Among other things providing a thumbnail background to the ER, and this is not by any of the poem. Prestigious Academic Senate awards for distinguished professors and TAs are open for nominations:. Hi! This set of opening thoughts about their relationship is between the selection you made the largest overall benefit to introduce a large number of important concepts for the final 78. Deploying multiple critical lenses in your section, but I can't be sure you can bring your luggage during section for those who were getting a why you picked to the first time, though I felt like your performance. Moreover, you need to do so. Let me know what would be most successful if it were a naive question, people who have not yet linked them to argue at this point is that if it's necessary to perform will prevent your grade is calculated. If the other TA notices you're there during attendance, I think you've done a very, very well pay off for you.

#Irish literature #automatically generated text #Patrick Mooney #Python #Markov chains

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