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 Post subject: Clliche corner
PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2013 10:50 am 
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When it's too hard to think about what to put into a lede, draw instead upon the infinite universe of things you never had to think hard about [until it became time to think about them]:

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Growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as a middle-class, private-schooled girl in the 1960s, I didn’t think much about guns. Nor did I become interested in gun violence even during the city’s turbulent 1970s. My only experience handling a gun came in my senior year in high school when a boyfriend took me out to rural Long Island to shoot a .22 at targets, which I have to admit was fun.
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