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	How to Drop Out

chiggles

2-24-2008 11:39 AM

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chiggles says:

Not dropping out from school.
"It's not like walking through a magic doorway -- it's like growing a fruit tree."

Man do I love Ran Prieur

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2-24-2008 11:51 AM

winter365

I'd have thought nowadays "like growing an orchard"

2-24-2008 11:57 AM

chiggles

haha, nice.
i do agree, however.
perhaps a tree, in comparison to everything else these days, is an orchard in itself.

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