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Though I'll return to Boston come September and love it for its own peculiarities, I'm devoting this summer to re-learning to love Minnesota. I've lost my faint Boston accent and I'm droppin' the g's off of most'-ing' words these days. I'm walking to the grocery store and writing a check every time, and they never ask me for ID. My alarm clock is tuned to the local country music station, and I sing along in the shower to those twangy melodies I scorned in high school because I just couldn't wait...
There were a lot of changes, but some things stayed the same. My roommate hails from Long Island, yet she can pull a Valley accent better than I can! I found some good friends among the people who lived in my dorm and generally had a very good time after that first rough month getting used to people and living with them. I found an activity I truly enjoyed, witnessed my first Primal Scream (I still shudder), chose a concentration, and found love at the First-Year Formal. There was also the drama of "blocking." I prayed each night before...
...Rowling, sequel to last year's sensational Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. So last week we raced to our favorite bookstore to snap up a copy. As we drove home, my daughter cracked it open and started reading aloud. She laughed. She chortled. She did an English accent. And I enjoyed one of those shining moments when you realize that despite your parental shortcomings, things have turned out the way they're supposed...
...wandered away from the Yugoslav escorts, a little boy recognized a Western accent and ran to get his father. The man waved me inside. In a furtive whisper, speaking in Albanian with a few words of English, he said two Yugoslav tanks had been hidden in the village. Why bomb here? Because military police had been living in the Albanian houses. At night they stood outside those homes and fired rockets at the planes. Showing pictures of his children, the man said his family had left for Macedonia. He would join them soon. In Kosovo you are a potential target...
Sure, Darth Maul looks wicked evil. And yeah, Ewan McGregor is pretty damn decent with that Obi-Wan accent. But a Star Wars movie without Harrison Ford? Forget special effects. Forget movie myth. It didn't matter. When Emily first heard the news, she burst into tears and refused to comment...