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A Party From the turn of the 20th century

Who are these people ? Carl's friends ? Janet's? Wow. I looked at this picture for a long time and it got stranger and stranger. The wacky wallpaper, the crooked pictures on the wall, the streamers, people look wasted -- yet reserved. Is it evening ? Morning ? The day after ? What about that light fixture? What does "PIPI" on the wall mean ? Where? Who? What a party ! Not so different from college days up the time stream. Everyone piled into someone's lodgings for the evening's festivities. I've always loved this photo. It was in an album of my grandfather's. I think its Syracuse University.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. -Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

--Terry Goodkind

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