New York Diary (Entry the Fifth, in which Deb fulfills her mission and also brings bad karma on her classmates)

Dear Diary,
I went to New York to learn, plain and simple.
I was not sure where I would fall along the continuum of teachers attending the National Training Curriculum intensives at ABT, although I feared it would be dangerously close to zero.  In fact, I think I barely squeaked past the admissions committee because of my training credentials, which are respectable at least.  [...]

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You’ve seen them:  the stickers that masquerade as international code emblems, only they’re not—like this one, from Hilton Head, South Carolina.  Not long ago a dear friend of mine posited that the “fake” stickers were trendy and just plain dumb.  She in fact saw a man getting into a car with one of these white stickers on it, the [...]