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Normally the judges vote on whether or not a contestant will make it through to the next round, but if they think someone has star potential, they can smash the America’s Got Talent Golden Buzzer and confetti will rain down on the contestant.

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While there are plenty of books and message boards about grieving the death of your parents, no one quite prepares you for the odd way people speak to you when it comes up in conversation — and when most people your age still live with their parents, it comes up surprisingly often.

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This sounds a bit indelicate and a borderline churlish observation. Though, when it is commonplace for news of a celebrity death to arrive in the form of a “Status Update,” I think it becomes perfectly valid.