As in life, patience (with a good dose of perspective) helps keep difficult situations from turning into despairing ones.

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Some were funny about the students, especially the crazies, the ones who brought the two thousand handwritten pages of their novel in a plastic bag, or wrote from the perspective of a donkey abused by its owner.

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