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So I've Decided to Join.
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So I've Decided to Join.

After a long time looking at this site and all it has to offer, and the crap going on at my school already I decided it's time I joined to find and communicate with like minded people who feel the same way about school as I do. A little background on me, I'm currently a senior in HS with 3 months left to go (thank goodness) and am waking up to and further researching the corruption that is the US school system. And so I say, Hello to all here on SS.

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"Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before. "-Voltairine De Cleyre
02-09-2010 01:30 PM
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Hi.

Welcome to SS, say no to therapy... I hear it makes you sane. Uhoh

Lucky, I have three years and four months to go.

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02-09-2010 01:33 PM
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Thanks. I see you like Assassin's Creed, I've beaten and loved both of those games and am oh so eager to learn where AC3 will take place.

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02-09-2010 01:35 PM
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I know! I hope it's somewhere like Rome, because Renaissance Italy was already used. The American Revolution would be pretty cool too. The cliffhangers make me want to cry...)

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Maybe in France during the Enlightenment or French Revolution or maybe Victorian England.

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02-09-2010 01:41 PM
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Welcome.

Almost out... hang in there.

Anything that ever happened or will... one condition, it has to be amazing.

I gave her wings but she don't wanna fly no more.

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Ooo, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
02-09-2010 01:41 PM
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Chibi Moon Beam Wrote:Maybe in France during the Enlightenment or French Revolution or maybe Victorian England.
Those too. I heard the French revolution was pretty brutal.

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The developers were tossing around the idea of playing in England during the first or second World War as a woman. Seems interesting.

Although I personally want the American Revolution.

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But the French Revolution has guillotines!

Anything that ever happened or will... one condition, it has to be amazing.

I gave her wings but she don't wanna fly no more.

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
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Ooo, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
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02-09-2010 03:17 PM
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Loxor Wrote:But the French Revolution has guillotines!

It also has the French...

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Welcome!

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Electro Gypsy Wrote:The developers were tossing around the idea of playing in England during the first or second World War as a woman. Seems interesting.

Although I personally want the American Revolution.
As a woman. Funny, I thought about the lulz that would be had if Desmond had to relive a girls memory. Laugh

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I hate you guys!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not even in HS Yuck yet!!

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trisomy-21 Wrote:I hate you guys!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not even in HS Yuck yet!!

*Shudderrr*

Anything that ever happened or will... one condition, it has to be amazing.

I gave her wings but she don't wanna fly no more.

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Ooo, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
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