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By historyfreak GOLD
Rochester, New York

Right across the bay from New York City there is a strip of beach inhabited by a hundred or so Irish families. This small, residential area is called Breezy Point. My grandfather g...
historyfreak GOLD, Rochester, New York
17 articles 0 photos 19 comments

Favorite Quote:
\&quot;No man ever enters, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.\&quot;<br /> \&quot;I love old things, they make me sad...sad is happy for deep people.\&quot;


Nonfiction
By freedomwriter7 PLATINUM
T-town, Illinois
freedomwriter7 PLATINUM, T-town, Illinois
27 articles 12 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.&quot; ~Eleanor Roosevelt<br /> <br /> ThinkGeek asks: did you know that Vulcans eat cookies only once every seven years?

Nonfiction
By ninapaniena PLATINUM
Sammamish, Washington
ninapaniena PLATINUM, Sammamish, Washington
20 articles 7 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
To be a good surgeon you have to think like a surgeon, emotions are messy, tuck them neatly away and step into a clean sterile room, where the procedure is simple, cut suture, and close. But sometimes your faced with a cut that won&#039;t heal, a cut that rips the stitches right open

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GiselleJ BRONZE, Missouri City, Texas
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Live in the land of &quot;what next&quot;...not &quot;if only&quot;!&quot;<br /> &quot;Do what you feel because those that mind don&#039;t matter and those that matter don&#039;t mind.&quot;<br /> &quot;You can do anything, but not everything.&quot;<br /> &quot;Sometimes you can only see the stars when it&#039;s completely dark&quot;

abigail_rose1994 GOLD, Whittier, California
14 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
Romans 12:21 &quot;Do not be overcome by Evil, but overcome Evil with GOOD. &quot;

Nonfiction
By WarriorMVT SILVER
Danville, Indiana
WarriorMVT SILVER, Danville, Indiana
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments
Nonfiction
By WarriorMVT SILVER
Danville, Indiana
WarriorMVT SILVER, Danville, Indiana
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments
Allie Stiler BRONZE, Austin, Texas
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
Nonfiction
By Anonymous
The_Blackest_Rose PLATINUM, Joliet, Montana
31 articles 19 photos 41 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;History is the fiction we invent to convince ourselves that events are knowable and life has order and direction.&quot; --Calvin and Hobbes