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Unless, of course, you count pretending you had killed yourself.
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Or just to have someone to recite the Dead Parrot sketch with.
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You do that on birthdays too, right?
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Which thankfully covered the worst haircut I'd ever received in my lifeâa boys' regular from a barbershop on the road in Des Moines. I hate to admit it, but when I obsessed about the nationally televised debates, half the time I was worrying if my hair would grow out by then.
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Why aren't they fighting over me? Why are they bonding?
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l'm not the only person analyzing foreign policy while watching a belly dancer, am I?
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It was also what I was wearing on my last vision quest when Beth paid me that little visit. I mean, come on!
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An international agreement to reduce global warming signed by almost every country except us.
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This country was founded on dissent and the exchange of differing views. Cut me some slack here!
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Due to the new Patriot Act, I was stopped at every security checkpoint because of who I was. I'm all for airline security, but I always missed my flight. Gee, I thought by trying to make the country a better place, I was being patriotic.
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Like an oral version of the SAT, just less fun.
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Another catch-22: if the press buried the new facts of the story on page forty-seven, how was I supposed to clear my name and start to catch up in the polls again? Throughout the campaign, I'd spoken about how wrong it was for six conglomerates to own almost all the U.S. media outlets. I was now experiencing their corporate wrath and one-sidedness firsthand.
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Except for the older monkey who resisted the change. Figures.
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And proceeded to almost fall.
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I dealt with the anxiety in another way, doodling a map of Gilligan's island on the marker board, laying out where each hut was in relation to the others. It kept my mind off the extraordinary fact that we might actually win.
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As quickly as someone can race with a healing femur.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tashjian, Janet.
Vote for Larry / Janet Tashjian.
p. cm.
Sequel to: The gospel according to Larry.
Summary: Not yet eighteen years old, Josh, a.k.a. Larry, comes out of hiding
and returns to public life, this time to run for president as an advocate
for issues of concern to youth and to encourage voter turnout.
[1. ElectionsâFiction. 2. Politics, PracticalâFiction.
3. Political activistsâFiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.T211135Vo2004 [Fic|âdc22 2003056578
ISBN 0-8050-7201-2 / EAN 978-0-8050-7201-3 / First editionâ2004