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GET OUT OF MY DREAMS AND ONTO MY HEAD You cross off days on your calendar, impatiently watch hours tick by, and today is the day: Graduation in Denmark. BY CASSANDRA WEE & LYDIA DEICHMANN PHOTOGRAPH BY CASSANDRA WEE
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s we sat on the equestrian statue, looking around at our fellow students at the end of what had been a very eventful truck ride, it suddenly dawned on us that this was the moment.. After trying
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to delay the goodbyes for too long, as if they were never actually going to happen, we had to summon up the courage for it. This marked the official end of high school; our classmates were no longer our classmates - a harsh reality. Although there was
no doubt that he was among the most intoxicated of the group, he had grasped the concept much sooner than the rest of us milling around. He began to cry. Our efforts to comfort him were perhaps reflective of our own needs for closure.