The Problem With Maps
       

When I was growing up, there was no Southern Ocean, and the land comprising Yugoslavia was unbroken and pink. Everything falls out of fashion though. Certain movies used to scare us, and there was a time I'd stand in line for concert tickets. It is easy to forget about the Visigoths and how they treated Rome, but across the world, twenty-eight royal families continue to breed their kings. Mt. Saint Helens, I am reminded, was at one time taller.

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