Out of the blue, an old college friend of mine emailed me. 
<a href="http://www.alexmanning.com/blog/">Alex Manning</a> is married and editing movie 
trailers in LA, which is a very big jump from being a single java programmer in NYC, 
which is a very big jump from being a pre-law philosophy student intent on writing the 
longest NC thesis ever, which is why he just plain rocks. 

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