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So, I was talking to my roommate, I don’t know how this even happened, I must of at some...

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  Play: Hamlet Scene: Act 5, Scene 1 Playwright: William Shakespeare Summary: A tragic ghost story about Prince Hamlet’s...

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Let me be clear first-the traumatic brain injury that we now know happens in contact sports-specifically football-cannot be left...

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