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Writing on a Paper

A Letter To My Playwriting Teachers,
With Love

I am so sorry that I needed to leave our cohort program

at Columbia University before graduation,

but I needed to be home with my family then,

and I needed to think about a play by Ira Hauptman,

about two friends

who were similar

and different.

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I met a friend during this time,

who still teaches me many things,

and I think about Samuel Beckett,

and I love my friend, and I love Samuel too,

and I love their friend, and we love you all so much.

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We learned, each of us, three friends, in our own ways,

​while teaching Montessori School in Houston, Texas,

that 'three' is a descriptive word,

and when we thought about this word, 

we called the word 'three' an adjective, actually. 

Let’s Work Together

Partitions, in the field of mathematics, are about

what a whole number can be about.

If I have three daffodil flower arrangements,

I could place one floral arrangement by my desk,

and I could place the other two arrangements 

on the kitchen table, for example.

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This is an example of one partition, for the

whole number, three​.

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Here, I have used the word 'partition' as a noun,

and, so too, I have used the word 'three' as a noun. 

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I still have with me, though, the idea

of a flower arrangement on my desk. 

Really, mathematics and physics

ought to be learned integratively,

from a very early age, actually.

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But let me return to playwriting, as an academic field.

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