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Well, this certainly did not go as I had expected.

I just finished reading the (only) four posts on a blog I told myself I was going to maintain and I am disappointed. I remember when I first wrote that first post, about what i would do with a blog.

As it turns out, if I had a blog, I would let it sit in the crevasses of Goodreads and forget it even existed.

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