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About me - Emma Riley Sutton

My friends call me "The Queen of Useless Information;" if you need any information about something that doesn't matter, ask me. I absorb strange facts and trivia. I am not sure how or why I acquired this unusual skill, but I am proud of it.

I earned two B.A.s,

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"Just to hit the ball and touch them all, a moment is the sun..." as the song says. It is more than a moment in the sun. It is, give or take a few days, seven months of bliss, sheer heaven for this baseball fanatic. All winter I am checking the calendar to see how long it is until Opening Day, which should be a national holid... More..
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