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"  Ladies and gentlemen, something terrible has happened. This could be the most terrifying thing that has ever happened to me, so for those who are faint of heart please stop reading now, for your own sake.     The other day I was talking to my friend back home when his younger friend who is still in high school came up and started talking to us. He took one look at me and exclaims &amp;quot;OMG You look just like my Spanish teacher!&amp;quot;. After seeing the terror on my face, he quickly adds &amp;quot;Oh...don&amp;#039;t worry, she&amp;#039;s hot.&amp;quot; Although he desperately tried to cover up his error, an alarming thought creeped into my mind- I&amp;#039;m OLD!   I wouldn&amp;#039;t mind being mistaken for a twenty-something celebrity, but being told I look like a teacher was the most frightening thing that has ever happened to me. It made me start thinking, am I really that old?! I&amp;#039;m only 19 for crying out loud! Then I started thinking about all of the new responsibilities that I have begun to take on since I&amp;#039;ve moved out of my house: I balance my check book, tweeze my eyebrows, fill out tax returns, sign leases, call maintenance when my shower breaks (which happens way too often), commit myself to being the coffee slave at offices (we all know the word &amp;quot;intern&amp;quot; really just means coffee slave), go to fancy community events, and worst of all I&amp;#039;ve started to use a heating pad for back pain. I. AM. REALLY. GETTING. OLD. And I&amp;#039;m freaking out about it!  Soon I&amp;#039;m going to start getting &amp;quot;ma&amp;#039;amed&amp;quot;, I&amp;#039;ll have to start going to the big kid doctor and dentist, I&amp;#039;ll actually have to decide on a major, and *gasp* finad a job! This is freaking me right out the door!   I guess it&amp;#039;s not all that bad, I mean I don&amp;#039;t have a curfew anymore, I don&amp;#039;t have to be nagged at to get my work done, and I can sleep until the early afternoon and feel fantastic about it. But still, I&amp;#039;m really starting to see that I&amp;#039;m becoming an &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot;, and it&amp;#039;s really weird! It seems like just yesterday that the most important thing in my life was catching the latest episode of the Power Rangers, or getting the newest beanie baby. Now it&amp;#039;s getting the rent in on time, studying for all my exams, looking for a new place to live next year, and all other sorts of lame stuff that you don&amp;#039;t think of when you&amp;#039;re living with your parents. Even though I&amp;#039;m scared out of my mind, I&amp;#039;m kind of excited to see where all this is going to end up. Stay tuned!  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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