State Quarters

Here comes the coin nerd again. My aforementioned childhood interest in collecting coins was rekindled due to the 50 State Quarters program, which has proved to be an unprecedented success in the United States. Starting in 1999, the US mints in Denver and Philadelphia began producing a new quarter dollar coin every quintile (1/5 of [...]

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Beginning of long, rambling anecdote involving either a car, a pet or a bizarre sexual accident.
Digression into discussion of one of the others of these three.
Continuation of anecdote, now with a number of emoticons.
Total tangent. angsty!whiny!Fanperson ranting about how long it’s going to be before the next movie/book/series which is their fandom’s lifeblood [...]

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Musings on Independence

A number of years ago I stood in a small park downtown, a beautiful woman at my side, filled with a childlike sense of wonder as the sky exploded with life, light and color all around me. The terrorist trauma that had scarred the nation ten months previously seemed almost forgotten, so too the dark [...]

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