Letter From Your Editors
Hello Mint Chocolate Chips!
If it's summer where you are, I hope you are staying cool for the summer. Here are some tips from us regarding being cool for the summer:
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Friends, journeymen, countryladies, squirrels, creatures of the forest — these are dark and/or hopeful times in the world, and around here it feels like we're going through a third adolescence. Or, at least, that's what Laneia told me the other day and it made me feel better about whatever I...
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