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The Wandering Gator: Goodbye to Florence

Florence gave me more in a mere six weeks than college has given me as a whole in two years. I came into college with no sense of direction. To be honest, my only purpose for majoring in engineering was pleasing my family. For the past few years, I have been desperately searching for myself to no avail. I did not feel the need to do well in my classes, I spread myself too thin amongst clubs in an attempt to find someplace I belonged, and I just was not happy.


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OPINION  |  COLUMNS

Suing Obama: Symptom of DC insanity

In an effort to save American democracy from the evil tyrant, “King Obama the First,” Speaker of the House John Boehner revealed that he plans to sue the president for overstepping his constitutional authority. 


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OPINION  |  DARTS LAURELS

Darts & Laurels 7/3/14

It’s Summer B 2014, and freshmen desperation is in the air: You can find them moving in herds of 50 across Midtown, clogging the Starbucks on campus and wearing head-to-toe orange and blue. This isn’t a dig, though, class of 2018. We were in your (brand-new) shoes at one point, and we’re imparting some wisdom to you: Nobody is too cool for an umbrella. Carry an umbrella. And call your mom once a while. 


Victoria de Benedicty, 18, and Dalton Jacob, 24, practice at Victoria’s house in Ocala on Tuesday. Their band III BONES will perform its last show at the High Dive on Saturday before moving out to Austin, Texas.
 
THE AVENUE  |  MUSIC

Lo-fi Motown-soul duo III Bones graduates from Gainesville

On Monday evening, lo-fi Motown-soul duo III BONES held one of its final rehearsals in Ocala on American Eagle Farm. Light from the setting sun streamed in through the farmhouse’s floor-to-ceiling living-room windows as guitarist/singer Victoria de Benedicty, guitarist/singer Dalton Jacob and fill-in drummer Jared Reddick practiced for III Bones’ farewell show at High Dive on Saturday night.



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