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that is SOOO strange in a what-are-the-chances kind of way, serendipity ( I think serendipity's the wrong word for what I'm trying to convey, but what am I going to do?) I hate student loans. I mean, it's 'great' that tuition is frozen in Que. but why don't they increase International and out Province fees, put up the cost for Que students in general and then widen the criteria for bursary eligibility: then they could afford to send more people who can't afford it to school for free - or at least cheaper - so they don't end up with stagerring loans and interest when others could easily have afforded a little more in fees to start off with...but I'm ranting. Did you know that the last PQ government forcibly merged all the municipalities on the island of Montreal into one giant city? Everything that used to be cities are 'burroughs' now. In St. Laurent, the day the courts said the municipalities couldn't contest it, they draped their city hall in black cloth. I don't live there, but it was very impressive. What did they do for your daughter when she was born early? Incubator, incredibly long hospital stay? It's terrifying when that happens. I wish I was forty; then maybe I would be somewhere in my life instead of in this limbo, and maybe I would have the perspective to see things that have happened clearly instead of this overwhelming black mass hanging over me, rolling in like a wave. (I stole that image from Wurtzel's "Prozac Nation" just so I don't get sued). I can't believe you went to Rutgers that is just too amazing...!