https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1 en-us 2017-12-20 02:19:42 UTC 2025-11-16 16:37:24 UTC hello@padlet.com ewry https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217404720 2017-12-20 02:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217404720 ewry https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217404923 2017-12-20 02:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217404923 ewry https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217404937 2017-12-20 02:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217404937 ewry https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217405109 2017-12-20 02:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217405109 ewry https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217405401 Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words–and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and beautiful Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. ]]> 2017-12-20 02:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217405401 ewry https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217405755 “So do you really memorize last words?”

She ran up beside me and grabbed my shoulder and pushed me back onto the porch swing. 

“Yeah,” I said. And then hesitantly, I added, “You want to quiz me?” 

“JFK,” she said. 

“That’s obvious,” I answered. 

“Oh, is it now?” she asked. 

“No. Those were his last words. Someone said, ‘Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you,’ and then he said, ‘That’s obvious,’ and then he got shot.” 

She laughed. “God, that’s awful. I shouldn’t laugh. But I will,” and then she laughed again. “Okay, Mr. Famous Last Words Boy. I have one for you.” ]]> 2017-12-20 02:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ewry/bc4zj9b2heu1/wish/217405755