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Archive for October 2008

Things I Wanted to Be

by Katherine—Age 29—New York City
The embarrassing, complete list:
Kindergarten:
Great artist. Great philosopher. Write treatises about things. Composer (later realized do not comprehend music)
Second grade:
Scientist, like Louis Pasteur or Marie Curie (classroom had book nook with career series); Margaret Mead (did not totally understand what she’d done, but liked her style as represented in book-nook career books); […]