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it opens some doors and closes others. I learned to tone it down a bit by the time I got to college. As a theater major, it was fun in an acting class one day, when we each had to pretend to be another student. I chose to mimic a beautiful petite girl with long dark hair. She was my polar opposite, this former cheerleaderturnedhippieprincess named Michelle. She got a kick out of my impression of her. I thought it was cool that she could laugh at herself. We began a friendship that has brought us to the present day. Yet we were always opposites. I am Roman Catholic, she is Jewish. I am tall, she is short. One rainy afternoon on campus, Michelle insisted on carrying the umbrella for both of us, (I dont think I stood up straight until the next day!) Back then, she was as passionate a Democrat as I was a Republican. However, my friend and I still had something in mon that was more important than all the differences. We shared the same values and they showed up in a dozen little ways. That is why we are friends almost 30 years later. Furthermore, she had been moving in my direction politically before, but Sept. 11, 20xx, brought us to a new level of munication. We have bonded even more during this election. Sadly, I also have reevaluated some other friendships as tensions increased due to the KerryEdwards demagoguery. This is the first time in memory that Ive even been appalled by both spouses of the Democratic ticket. I rather liked Tipper Gore and Hadassa Lieberman. I thought they were sweet. And thats the way I used to feel about my liberal pals