To All the Freaky (naive & idealistic) People in Vermont

[alice malice]

or all of his brainy bookishness and street smarts, Matt in the spring
of 1998 was a greenhorn. We all were, but there was an innocence about
him, some portion of which he never lost. I was only two years older,
twenty-six to his twenty-four, which at the time seemed like a big
difference and now seems like nothing. The other two interns in our
cohort, Sarah Vos and Seth Ackerman, were younger still. Seth was,
what, nineteen? The youngest intern Harper's ever hired, I'm pretty
sure. Young as he was, Seth could seem older than Matt, less innocent.
Seth was precociously world-weary, whereas Matt would never weary of
the world.

http://harpers.org/blog/2014/03/matt-power-headlamp-a-must/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=580NWAdGaAo&feature=kp
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