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Making metaphors and analogies count

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Brittany Westerberg — Leave a comment

We’ve been going through a bit of a freak April snow and ice storm in South Dakota this week, and so everyone has been paying attention to the news (and news online, when they couldn’t get TV or when the power was…

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