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It was once said that the world would end not with a bang, but with a whimper. Realize that
in leaving CBA we each filter slowly out like one lengthy breath. Nothing has changed...and
maybe this is the whimper. A quiet expelling of air from all things. Sooner or later the halls will
lay dormant with sleep. Classrooms will echo long dead, didactic shouts only in memory; nostalgic and yearning for forgotten days.
All of this is inconsequential but it brings up a certain, crucial question: What have we lost and what have we won? It is merely posed, because the answer is of great importance. It is up to us to decide whether or not we have succeeded. Was success even the object of our gesticulations? Futile, hopeful, either? And in the end, does it really matter?
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