<p>Just the Introduction as a spoiler :P: PM for the rest ;)</p>
<p>And edits/critiques would be so greatly appreciated, this is for New College, if that helps at all!</p>
<pre><code>Resting on my desk, opposite a whirlwind of loose papers and half-finished projects, lies a plain and solid block of pine wood with three words neatly etched into it, Odi Et Amo. For those of you not proficient in Latin: I hate and I love, the painfully accurate physical manifestation of my perpetual Odyssey through the Latin language. Less than four years ago Latin I was just a string of numbers on a registration sheet, 0706300. Little did I know that this language would mold me into the student, and moreover person, I am today.
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