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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A student who had often been frustrated during my class used this poem in her final reflection.

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Recording Christmas Stories for WAOB Audio Theatre

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After lights out, the girl is knitting.

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