Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from IB Language and Literature Year 2

My reflection of Senior Year in true Anna Conger fashion...



 "These and all else were to me the same as they are to you,/ I loved well those cities, loved well the stately and rapid river,/ The men and women I saw were all near to me,/ Others the same- others who look back on me because I look'd forward to them,/ (The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night)" 

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