Not cool.
His mama’s hands have been broken, his pets have been smashed and his birthday crown stolen.
But the latest insult against this particular baby Jesus was his recent abduction from the Christmas Creche Committee’s nativity scene, on Market Street near 5th, next to the Independence Visitor Center.
It started at the Ivy League level. So my high school friend at Harvard asked me to be his friend. Naturally I said yes. (How can a Harvard friend lead you wrong?) And before I knew it, I had 300+ Temple classmates who were ‘facebook friends,’ and hundreds more from high school. No problem. We all shared (relatively) the same taste for poking, posting updates and posing for scandalous pictures. Facebook was privy to fond college memories, triumphs and extreme failures. It helped me get my homework done. Learn about jobs. Interview men. It made my world inexorably smaller and easier to navigate. That was college.
Then I graduated. Continue reading
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