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memorized his address. Soon his house

was getting hit by an exorbitant amount

of certain squeezably soft personal

paper products.

But then I made a big mistake. One

Halloween, when the students asked

me where I lived, I put my colleague’s

address on the board. I moved on with

my class and forgot about it. As my

lecture was ending, before I had a

chance to erase the board, he walked in

to prepare his class. With shock, he

asked what his address was doing up

there. My students looked at me and

grinned, and no matter how I tried to

gloss it over, I knew I was in trouble.

That particular year we owned a

beautiful, female Great Pyrenees dog.

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