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Going to Preschool at 23

by Andrea Puckett

Two years ago, I went back to school. It wasn’t a college or a professional program, but it was preschool. This was my first time at attending a preschool because when I was a child I told my mom that I didn’t want to go to one and she didn’t send me. I attended not as a student but as a teacher. However, I think that I was the one that gained a world of knowledge.

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New Year's Eve: Settling Down without Settling

by Andrea Puckett

The New Year brings no baggage with it. It is a time where people reflect back to the woes of the previous and celebrate being alive. However, what makes up a good new year is different for everyone.

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Entering the Virtual World: A Friend and Enemy

by Andrea Puckett

Using the computer as a way to communicate with friends and family became second nature to me when I did my undergraduate work at Virginia Tech. Emailing was the only way that I could speak to professors that had 500 plus people in their classes. Instant Messaging became a preferred way for my roommates and I to talk with each other instead of walking into the next room and speaking with them.

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Rain that Stormed My World

by Andrea Puckett

What words do you say to a woman who has just lost her son? This was the dilemma that I found myself in when I was 15 years old and was a survivor of a serious car accident when another person in the car didn’t live.

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High School Reunions at Funeral Homes

by Andrea Puckett

I have always considered a high school reunion to just be an event that happens every 10 years or so and get people together again to see what path life has taken them down. After, I graduated high school, I have always wondered if I would attend high school reunions or would I simply choose to leave the past behind.

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