In the backs of our minds we think

Dad's an English teacher at a community college in upstate NY. Over the years, he's built a collection of the truly awful things some of his students have handed-in. Here are two:

• Drugs first heavily came about in the time of the hippies, which was probably their escape from all the war they were put through by our government, who wouldn't want to escape the reality of countries trying to destroy one an other.
  
  
• Perhaps more important than physical beauty is internal beauty. I'm not talking about actual innards, like internal organs.
  

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