Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then I went back on medication. I don't really like it. I used to be able to joke and laugh, but it slows down my reaction to things. And it killed my appetite, so I don't usually eat at lunch. I go off somewhere by myself rather than sitting at lunch not eating and looking strange...
...group enters the Yard by Sever. It's 3:15 p.m. on a Friday and most of the other people out and around are taking pictures. Leading, the three boys take up the width of the path. They laugh loud. Beth and Carrie follow, discussing that night's party possibility. Annie brings up the rear. When she waves goodbye at Au Bon Pain, only Beth takes any notice...
...Alex and Jason laugh. Jason adjusts the white bandana he wears folded like a sweatband across his forehead. A boy they call Crazylikes emerges from inside and walks to the curb. He gestures toward one of the shrieking girls, who has a bright blue comb stuck in the back of her hair...
...They laugh...
...other year, Warren Beatty running for president would be marginally relevant news. People would laugh, brush it aside, and reinitiate their criticism of Pat Buchanan. But Warren, clever little devil that he is, waited until this year to throw his hat into the ring. Next year's presidential race looked like it was going to be the most thuddingly boring event in United States electoral history since--well, the last presidential election. Poor Al Gore nor George W. Bush. They're both qualified, but that doesn't seem to matter much anymore; they don't have nearly enough scandal...