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The Severely Smitten Student

16 Wednesday May 2018

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The south portal of Notre-Dame d’Amiens

As much as we love Paris, we always try to take a little out-of-town trip so that Tom can get a train ride. This year it was Amiens, just over an hour away.

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20,000 Leagues and Eight Squirrels

14 Monday May 2018

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Let’s get one thing straight: a “league” is a not a measure of depth. A league is equal to three miles. As Jules Verne would have it, twenty thousand leagues was a measure of horizontal distance under the sea, a journey that would’ve gone on longer had Kirk Douglas not interfered.

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