An Excuse To Mention My 1480 Sat Score

I had always heard that your 20s are your most fertile creative time; few people have accomplished anything great after 30--not Einstein, not Newton, not Linda Lovelace. Now I know it's true. At the age of 29, I have tabled all ambitions to write a novel, play or episode of JAG. Even my planned autobiography, A Mildly Amusing Work of Limited Intellect, has been set aside.

To verify my deterioration, I signed up to take the SATs again so I could objectively compare my current self with my old, quite impressive, high school self, who got a score of 1480....

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