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    You may also email your story to buildingbridgeswbw@gmail.com (please include the text and photos in the body of your email, not as an attachment) or mail your submission to Building Bridges, Box #162, 7304 Carroll Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912. Please be sure to include your responses to #1-7 in your email or letter. If you have questions, contact us at buildingbridgeswbw@gmail.com.

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    A deep red book cover of The Plague, with a large eye staring below the title

    On this earth there are pestilences and there are victims

    I read The PIague when I was a junior at Notre Dame, in 1978. I’d been given an assignment to write a paper about the book but had confused deadlines, and I realized at about 6 p.m. one evening that the paper was due at 9 a.m. the next morning – and I hadn’t read a page, had no idea what it was about.

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