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Recently I got the urge to rummage through some old things. I am somewhat of a hoarder but in the past few months I have actually been able to get rid of boxes of stuff that have laid dormant in my basement (this included Rolling Stone magazines that date clear back to high school and McDonalds Happy Meal toys that go back even further). Some things I …

By Mark Toriski The breaking headline on CNN the morning of February 27 was a familiar one, albeit one that was strangely (or perhaps morbidly) nostalgic – “Shots reportedly fired at Chardon, Ohio high school.” The scene that morning was also familiar. A mass of students standing in a parking lot, police cars and ambulances everywhere, parents and teachers trying to comfort them while barely keeping it together …