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I've not always been the sarcastic-but-generally-happy medievalist you've come to know and, if not love, tolerate. There were some years back there, before I was an unhappy, stressed-about-college-applications adolescent, when I was a downright annoying preadolescent who was sarcastic about everything and responded to authority with a grumpy "hmph".

So when I saw this picture:


I naturally thought of myself.

So, I dedicate this birthday post to my parents, who never once in the most frustrating of my 23 years left me out to die of exposure (however much they may have pondered it).