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| ===The Man, The Myth, The Brendan Boston===
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| I was born in November, awhile ago. Since then, I’ve been eating and sleeping almost every day. I really enjoy drinking water and other non-alcoholic decaffeinated liquids, and I also enjoy being awake. I’ve gone to school for about a hundred years now, and am still no smarter than when I started. When I was younger, I really enjoyed dinosaurs. The movies Mars Attacks and War of the Worlds (with Tom Cruise) are probably the only movies that actually scare me. I am by profession a hermit, and spend long hours of the day not really communicating with people. I enjoy music very much. I can play about twenty guitar chords and am a mean finger-picker. I also whistle better than your and yours. Don’t ask me my favorite band because I don’t know. What you are reading is an amended biography taken from my [http://www.facebook.com Facebook]. If you have a Facebook, add me to your friend list. It’s not hard, I don’t smell bad, and, best of all, it’s completely free of charge. All information provided within the biography is true and accurate despite the form, syntax, vocabulary, organization, and tone of this biography. This biography has been amended to provide further information about me, so that you, the weary Internet traveler, might be edified. This wiki contains information about me and my illustrious family of milkmen, Scots, Baptist ministers named Valentine and Civil War colonels.
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| ===Concerning the Family===
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| I was born on a November day in 1988, two weeks past due. This is proof that I am a procrastinator by nature. I’ve led a pretty boring life of nearly nineteen years. My parents are Mark and Cathy. My siblings are Bridget (17), Thomas (14), and Stephen (7). We live in a twin on a street in the Beverly Hills section of Upper Darby. So in a way, I live in Beverly Hills. The jealousy within you grows, reader, I can sense it.
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| ===History of Education===
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| I went to grade school at my parish elementary school, [http://www.saintlaurence.org St. Laurence School]. I went to high school at [http://www.bonnerhigh.com/s/257/splash.aspx Monsignor Bonner High School], where I was instructed in the Augustinian and Catholic tradition. This year, I am attending [http://www.dickinson.edu Dickinson College], a liberal arts college in Carlisle, PA, a sleepy hamlet known for car shows, being the county seat of [http://www.ccpa.net/cumberland/site/default.asp Cumberland County], and being a sleepy hamlet. Carlisle is nestled in a valley made by the ancient Appalachians.
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| ===Concerning my Hometown===
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| [http://www.upperdarby.org Upper Darby] is a township within [http://www.co.delaware.pa.us Delaware County], Penna. It abuts Philadelphia County to the east, Springfield Township to the west, Haverford Township to the north, and Aldan, Darby, Collingdale and Yeadon Townships to the South. My home is less than fifteen minutes from Philadelphia County, and thirty minutes from the silvery towers of Center City.
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| Upper Darby was first settled by Swedes, who built some log cabins in 1654. A group of Quakers, part of William Penn’s posse, settled in the area, which, in 1786, was cleaved from Darby, and christened Upper Darby Township. There are a number of interesting [http://www.upperdarby.org/history.html historical sites] in Upper Darby, including buildings that once functioned as stops on the Underground Railroad, the Collenbrook Farm, and the indomitable Tower Theatre. [[Wikipedia: Tower Theatre (Upper Darby, Pennsylvania)]]
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| ====The Rowdy Neighbor to the East====
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| :[http://www.gophila.com/ Philadelphia] was founded by a Quaker named William Penn, who stands, in bronze, atop the high masonry tower of City Hall. Pre-Revolution, Philadelphia was the largest and most happening city in the British American Colonies. It was a center of commerce and learning and more politically influential than Boston and New York. The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia. The Articles of Confederation were drafted in Philadelphia. The Constitution of the United States was written in Philadelphia. Benjamin Rush, the founder of Dickinson College, was a doctor in Philadelphia. Philadelphia was the capital of the United States. A lot went on in Philadelphia, and continues to.
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