Year Five
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2015 to 2016
This was our senior year of college. As I applied to graduate schools, Marcie worked on her capstone project, a video game based on her time at UCLA. When I was accepted into a PhD program on the East Coast, she tried to poison me with a $5.00 bottle of s'mores vodka that she found in the clearance aisle of a nearby liquor store. At the end of the year, we savored our last summer in Minnesota. I was getting ready to move to New Jersey in September, and Marcie was making plans to come with me once she graduated in December.
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Minnesota
I calmly and rationally expound upon the faulty grammar in the University of Minnesota’s “Scholars Walk” sign. I would be delighted to say more about this subject to any interested wedding guests.
February 2016: our Valentine’s Day brunch
I celebrate my college graduation with a cake made in my image.
The term "Beguine" (Latin: beguinas; Dutch: begijn) is of uncertain origin and may have been pejorative. Scholars no longer credit the theory expounded in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911) that the name derived from Lambert le Bègue, a priest of Liège. Other theories, such as derivation from the name of St. Begga and from the purported, reconstructed Old Saxon word *beggen, "to beg" or "to pray," have also been discredited. The origin of the movement's name continues to be uncertain, as are the dates for the beginning of the movement itself. Picture unrelated.
Sonic the Hedgehog poses with beloved SEGA character Marcie LaCerte.
We stand outside of Marcie’s house on one of my last nights in Minnesota.