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My Conversion was Disturbing - Ante D Luvian

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I did not complete a single book cover to cover between the years 2011 and 2019.

I did not complete a single book cover to cover between the years 2011 and 2019. My petty, impotent revenge against the assigned reading of high school, being bored to tears with Orwell and Huxley and Shakespeare read with the dry monotone of a hungover English teacher whose first language was not English. That 8 year span was the most wasteful of my entire life, though 4 years of it were spent in university. Forgoing any of the assigned readings (and indeed, most of the classes), my “studying” involved skimming Wikipedia articles a few days before the exams, memorizing key points and…

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