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“One of my little boys just kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, please don’t...”
– RHONDA CROSSWHITE, sixth grade teacher at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, which was leveled by a tornado.  She threw herself over students inside a bathroom stall as the storm passed, likely helping to save their lives. Teachers.  Among the best of us. (via the New York Post)
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Foreign Words We Could Use in English →
nevver: Kummerspeck (German) Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon. Shemomedjamo (Georgian) You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? Tartle (Scots) The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can’t quite remember. Mamihlapinatapai...
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unstoppablyplushjuggernaut: the-vashta-nerada: superwhoavengelockandme: the-vashta-nerada: i don’t understand how people stop watching shows because something happens that they don’t like or they don’t like how it’s going like if i start a show i’m in it until the end in sickness and in health till death or discontinuation do us part man, i 1000% understand where you’re coming from ...
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“I have seen bombards split ranks apart the way Marfisa tore through the enemy....”
– Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, Canto XIX, 84-85  (Marfisa, Ruggiero’s sister, draws the short straw when her ship touches shore in Alexandretta, “the city of killer women.” Astolfo & the twins Grifon & Aquilant watch as she battles ten men in a tournament—and then, since it’s the custom in that...
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