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* WARNING : This review of the new hit thriller Netflix series, You   will include spoilers. Don't read if you're still planning on watching the show." "Well hello there....who are you?" Gossip Girl's lonely boy Penn Badgley is finally starring in a new hit show on Netflix that everyone is obsessed with, literally. Badgley plays Joe Goldberg, a manager at a book store in New York who becomes unhealthy engrossed with a women who walks into his store one day, Guinevere Beck, played by Elizabeth Lail. At the start of the show, we automatically are revealed to the dangers of social media. Beck's social media accounts, like Instagram and Facebook, are completely visible to the public eye. That's what makes it so easy for Joe to find her after their encounter at the book store. He even goes so far as to find her address, and watch her outside her apartment and even break IN. Most unrealistic part of the show? Beck has no curtains. Slowly, Joe finds

Why the Patriots Aren't "JUST a football team" to me

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My memories of Tom Brady and the New England Patriots go all the way back to when I was in elementary school. On Sundays, I looked forward to my mother cooking pasta and her famous meatballs while the Sunday game played in the background. Although I didn't understand football at the time, it was a comforting feeling- because I was home. When the Patriots would make it the SuperBowl, my mother and my aunts would paint #12, and the Patriot's logo on our faces. My cousins would run around in their Patriots attire as the adults intently watched the game and cheered on the team. In those moments, even as a little girl, I felt happiness. Every year, I looked forward to the team possibly making it the big game to experience a family tradition over and over again. As the years went by, I started to pay attention to the actual game of football. Tom Brady got older, more experienced, and players came and went. I was understanding football more and more as I watched game after game.