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She was already smoking hot, she was super dorky, and we had a December-May romance, meaning we started dating in December, and by May, she had graduated and became my one that got away.
Approximately 30 years ago, when I was in oncology at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, a father and a son walked into my office and they both had their right eye missing, and as I took the history, it became apparent that the father and the son had a rare form of inherited eye tumor, retinoblastoma, and the father knew that he had passed that fate on to his son.
That became my mantra.
So think about that moment back in 1902 again where a ferocious bear became a teddy bear.
They all happened to wear the uniform of the United States of America, so for me, the question and the answer really became pretty easy.
He was a lawyer and a writer, and his eyes twinkled when he laughed and they squeezed tight when I kissed him and at some point in the evening, our zero date became a first date.
Once life on Earth had access to multicellularity and sophisticated genetic structures, and sex, new opportunities opened up: animals became possible.
And I became a poetry critic because I wanted to know how and why.
That was two million years ago when we became humanoids and developed these large foreheads.
Gay marriage was on the ballot in the form of Proposition 8, and as the election returns started to come in, it became clear that the right for same sex couples to marry, which had recently been granted by the California courts, was going to be taken away.
He later in his life became a fierce advocate of LGBT rights as well, and his life is testament to the intersection of the struggles.
So just as Martin Luther King learned from and borrowed from Gandhi's tactics of civil disobedience and nonviolence, which became a bedrock of the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement saw what worked in the civil rights movement, and they used some of those same strategies and tactics to make gains at an even quicker pace.
I'd love to tell you that I didn't flinch, but I was terrified, and when my fear subsided, I became obsessed with finding out how this happened, how animal rights and environmental activists who have never injured anyone could become the FBI's number one domestic terrorism threat.
When I became a professor and had to guide my own students through their research projects, I realized again, I don't know what to do.
And then, almost inevitably, I became a travel writer so my job and my joy could become one.
And by going to that park, that park became the vehicle for him.
He became Gaius Julius Caesar upon being named his great-uncle’s adoptive son and heir.
You mean when he established sole authority and became emperor of Rome.
So Octavius destroyed Antony for trying to become a king and then became one himself?
Norman French became the language of the new royal court, while commoners continued to speak Anglo-Saxon.
They became highly prized mercenaries, and during one of these battles, they made the first recorded heavy cavalry charge with couched lances, a devastating tactic that soon became standard in medieval warfare.
Under Roger II, the kingdom became a beacon of multicultural tolerance in a world torn apart by religious and civil wars.
My mother, in the last years of her life, became very negative, and it's hard to listen.
What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps.
It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall.
It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.
Being in a prison, a barbed-wire prison camp, became my normality.
And I was a teenager, and I became very curious about my childhood imprisonment.
And then the Internet happened, and the world became extremely complex, extremely low-cost, extremely fast, and those Newtonian laws that we so dearly cherished turned out to be just local ordinances, and what we found was that in this completely unpredictable world that most of the people who were surviving were working with sort of a different set of principles, and I want to talk a little bit about that.
What happened after the Internet was the cost of innovation went down so much because the cost of collaboration, the cost of distribution, the cost of communication, and Moore's Law made it so that the cost of trying a new thing became nearly zero, and so you would have Google, Facebook, Yahoo, students that didn't have permission — permissionless innovation — didn't have permission, didn't have PowerPoints, they just built the thing, then they raised the money, and then they sort of figured out a business plan and maybe later on they hired some MBAs.
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