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"I found myself thinking that I was simultaneously too young and too old for this tomfoolery."

Tomfoolery is a word whose time has come for a revival. Also poseurs.

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Those bar recommendations are the booze equivalents of Olive Garden and I hope you didn't go to any of them.

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Lollllllll no we did not. We had a Jack Astor's at the mall here for a while, which helped me triangulate her taste pretty quickly.

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Are we going to have a retail crime panic about Matt Bergwal, probably not.

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Bit of a tangent, but I went to grade school with Bright Eyes, heh

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Was he like -- a precocious, sickly child? That would be my expectation.

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Moody, odd, but charismatic later on. I don't even remember him existing in the first few years, so probably a wallflower (like I was, but a different clique).

I ran into him once at a concert a few years back. What we talked about wasn't something I'd share, but he's got a sense of humor.

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