December 2010
6 posts
I just want to run along the tops of buildings covered with handmade tiles and steal bread from that damn baker Ollie on the corner of Dusk and Branch. This wretched one doesn’t have a penny to his name. Why, even my clothes are dirtied all the way through. I used to think, “What’s in this life for a beggar like me?” but now I see the real question is “What’s in me for this life?” So starting...
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How an 11-Year Old Girl Convinced Lincoln to Grow... →
theatlantic:
In what has to go down as one of the all-time great moments of political image consulting, an 11-year old girl suggested to a fresh-faced Abe Lincoln that he grow a beard. And then he did. The website Letters of Note even has copies of the girl’s letter and Lincoln’s response. Beyond being the cutest historical footnote of all time, Ms. Grace Bedell, had some solid reasoning...