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Thirty Degrees Below Zero
By Mary Wlodarski
I like the cold so brisk and fresh
it cuts through clothes
and crimps nose hair...
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer
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September 28, 1976: Lou Bellamy founds Saint Paul's Penumbra Theatre Company, a forum for African American theater voices in the Twin Cities.
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