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Best Of VA Missed Connections: July 14 – July 20

by Marilyn Drew Necci | RICHMOND NEWS, WTF?!

Welcome to this week's edition of Missed Connections, where we're gonna start with a bit of pretentiousness from your friendly neighborhood editor. Confidential to poet seeking muse: "wherefore" doesn't mean "where," it means "why." In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet...

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