Word: awkward
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...polite, not to mention patriotic, to fall in line behind a new President and kind of give him a send-off cheer. Despite the awkward circumstances, I'm for giving W. the old hip-hip. Besides, as Tolstoy once titled a short story, God Sees the Truth, But Waits...
...much as Ron loves his father [a wizard who is unusually curious about the nonmagic world], that can also be an awkward thing for a child, to have a particularly unconventional parent. It's plausible that these three kids would get on so well together because they are all to some extent oddities in the world...
Bruno and Michel are members of that awkward generation too young to be considered baby-boomers and too old to fit in with the Generation-Xers. They are, rather, the product of the hippie free love that was just beginning to flourish on both sides of Atlantic forty-odd years ago. Born to a loveless woman who leaves both sons with their respective grandparents in order to join a commune in California, Bruno and Michel become, essentially, the direct descendants of their age. Both dracins endure lonely and occasionally brutal childhoods that leave them unlovable and incapable of loving...
...Shoes do matter, because you don't want to look awkward" he said...
GIRL 2: What's the point? Formals are expensive. I want to have fun if I go. But guys can't dance, so you end up just standing around, mingling with other awkward couples. The only way to have fun is to go with a gay guy since they can all dance...