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March-April 2022

Most of the columns in this neighborhood of the magazine spend an inordinate amount of time reveling in the successes, promotions, and recent parole hearings of their classmates. I think you deserve something different. Something better.
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January-February 2022

Dear ’84 sisters and brothers, your secretaries go all out to deliver you news about your classmates—at their own time and expense. Recently, I went all the way to the Hanover Plain for Homecoming just so I could ferret out more news for you.
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November-December 2021

Here’s something you may not know: There is nothing in the rules that says that either co-secretary Juliet Aires Giglio or I have to mention any of you in our column.
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September-October 2021

Hello, ’84s! This column is being written way past the deadline so bear with me. I’ve moved to Sag Harbor, New York, for the summer and I flaked. Eek. Mea culpa. So, in true ’84 DAM column fashion, there will be truths and half-truths.
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July-August 2021

I was recently cleaning my attic and came upon an old checkbook. Upon close inspection, it was my college checkbook from the Dartmouth Savings Bank. As I thumbed through the yellowed pages, I was transported back to our time in Hanover.
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May-June 2021

As I write this column, it’s almost a year since the initial mid-March lockdown. It’s been a difficult year for sure. At the risk of toxic positivity, I’ve been wondering if there are any silver linings of the pandemic.
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January-February 2021

Alas, the holidays are over. Cookie tins are empty. Decorations are back in their boxes. Even my latest Lifetime Christmas movie, Dear Christmas, (yes, this is a shameless plug) has aired for its 14th time.
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November-December 2020

Many of you worry for my safety. As I write this column, filled with falsehoods and innuendo about our classmates, it seems possible that someone might seek to exact revenge upon me.
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September-October 2020

The world’s been on lockdown but one day we will all travel again. As your trusty co-secretary, I am ignoring the students in my Zoom classroom for however long it takes to write this column.
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July-August 2020

Well, this has been quite a challenging few months. While I have been sitting at home, putting the finishing touches on my attempt to create the world’s largest ball of twine, our class executive committee has been quite busy.
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May-June 2020

All the leaves are brown…And the sky is gray…California dreamin’…on such a winter’s day. On a gray day in upstate New York I reached out to our classmates in the great state of California to see what they’re doing.
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