Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some people wonder why we at FM think of ourselves as oh-so terribly important. Frankly, it's because we are. To prove this to you as indisputable fact, we offer you a backstage pass to the FM Weekend...
...number of commercial vendors peddling their wares at the fair. Alongside the portable hot tubs and incredible vacuum mops (as seen on TV), lies the Miracle Blade 2,000. Slicing tomatoes at an alarming rate, the salesman counts off the numerous features of this precision cutlery. Unimpressed? Stare in wonder as he begins sawing away at a steel hammer with the "knife that never needs sharpening". Buy one receive four free steak knives, all conveniently packaged in plastic...
Yeah. Probably once a year I go over to a friend's house in Chestnut Hill and have supper with her and her husband. Driving through Chestnut Hill and being in that house, I wonder...it's the kind of house I grew up in. But for me, this is the better choice. I mean, I don't think that they should dissolve Concord. My life is nothing like Beethoven's life, nothing like Verdi's, nothing like Mozart's, but rather similar to Bach's life. Bach spent the last (I think) 20 years of his life in this...
...Anyone who has witnessed a young person on a ventilator because his or her ability to breathe has been suppressed by toxic quantities of alcohol would wonder how such a thing could happen to a Harvard student. But as the Scott Krueger death showed, even the brightest and most promising students coming to colleges like MIT and Harvard are not invulnerable, as immortal as they may feel in the excitement of being here...
...admirable goal, but part of me can't help but wonder how much Oprah really just wanted to tell another story about herself...