Monday, May 21, 2007

Garbage Paper

Today I had planned to revise a paper from several years ago to submit for a scholarship. The topic is to be anything related to Florida history. When I opened my paper about Disney, nostalgia, and Celebration, this is what I found (this is the truncated version - the document that opened was 25 pages long!):

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This means that I have to find the hard copy (which I thankfully still have) and re-type the entire thing!

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