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A mix of serious and hilarious news you might have missed the week of (10/25/15).

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seriously?! seriously?!

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The departures board in the train terminal is an imposing thing. It’s your only source of information in the whole place. Ticket holders stand there staring, waiting for the shuffling clicks of its mechanism.

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“I still like a train best for [writing]. I wish Amtrak had residencies for writers,” was the tweet heard around the world.

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Planes always seem like time-travel to me. Those aluminum-skinned time machines make me feel weird, strangely dislocated, as if I were ripped from the world and then plopped down in some bizarre and unfamiliar environment like the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.

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I didn’t realize up until that point that I had been singing “That Lucky Old Sun” and crying for the entire walk home from the train station.

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there is no message so important that it can’t be mouthed out or written down. Even “Could you please get the pills out of my bag for me? I fear I am going to die.” Write it down, sick-o! And use a quiet pencil!