Username: lensor
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Member since: September 10, 2003
Birthday: July 26, 1953
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I graduated from Furman University with a bachelor's degree in English. One year later I completed my master's degree in teaching English at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. Since 1995 I have been a high school English teacher in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
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