A Thursday throwback to end 2015.

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Daughter made a Rainbow Loom Marty McFly. Note vest jacket and hover board.

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And so it begins.

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Is There a Santa Claus?

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NASA Releases New Earthrise Image

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Cookies. That is all.

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The Complete Deaths: all of the Bard’s 74 scripted deaths in one new play.

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Recording Christmas Stories for WAOB Audio Theatre

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