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    #17610 06/09/08 05:10 AM
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    The commencement address JK Rowlings' gave at Harvard last week was shared on one of my local GT listservs this weekend. It's entitled �The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,�

    Here is a link to the text and video ...
    http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html

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    Wow. Thank you for sharing kimck.

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    Thanks for sharing this Kimck! Great message. When she mentioned not remembering the speaker's address at her own graduation, I had to stop and think for a long time who the speaker was at my graduation. After much time-wasting on this, I suddenly remembered that I didn't attend my college graduation! (at the time i had a "too cool for graduation" attitude).

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    I remember nothing from my college graduation, however, if J.K. Rowling was the speaker I'm sure I would have remembered much of it!

    I didn't attend my high school graduation. My dad went anyway and picked up my diploma after!

    What a little pain in the arse I was!


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