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All right. My name is Kristen Paulie Parnell. I graduated in 1993 from Brown. I'm Karen Crowley Rodriguez. Also graduated in 1993 from Brown. I am Ruth Oh Reitmeier. I graduated in 1992 but matriculated with the class of 1993 Brown College and Heather Holly Allain 1993

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Brown College. Uh, one of our favorite Rice traditions is College Night when um we would have a themed party and like all week long, you would look forward to, to the party and plan out your costume to go with the theme shop around town on a

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budget and try to find um costumes that were creative and cool. So our favorite 11 of our favorite ones was the year we all went as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and we all wore green tights and leotards and everything like green clothes. And then we made

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giant turtle shells out of cardboard and strapped them to our backs and we had um um what do you call it? The front, the front was yellow, yellow poster board. It was like our underbelly. Our shell was a big trash bag filled with I don't remember

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this at all. And our masks were just like cut, cut and none of them fit very well. We kind of obscured our vision for the night for some good pictures. And we, we got dressed up really early that afternoon because we were so excited and it

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was hours before the party began. So we decided to like, treat the rest of campus to our costumes and, and run around. Yes, we did. We definitely rode around, ran around with our costumes, talking in all the um Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle lingo. All right. So

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I remember um Viking night too. Viking night was really fun because there used to be and I think it's gone now, but there used to be that toy store in the Rice Village. It sold like really cheap, like 10 cents toys, dollar toys, right? And they

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had um so we bought a whole bunch of really cheap Viking costume gear there and um had big horns and stuff. What were some of the other ones? I remember? I remember one time we dressed as space sluts and we used our hair dryers as our

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gun as guns. Oh my gosh. I mean, well, and, and I'm, I'm also remembering how um there were formals twice a year, right? One was called Got it last night and then, but what was Esperanza's? And we would, we would all just basically rotate dresses

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and wear the same dress and tell your disappeared. We got it actually was the high school homecoming dress actually. Was it the one with the different colored roses? You lost that dress. So somebody borrowed it and didn't return it. But I mean, that's in high school

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pictures and all that. I would never do something like that, but I'm not about borrowing a dress. Ok. Wait. And then wasn't it one of those dances? We went to the mall and you guys left me. We were, we were shopping for like accessories and pantyhose

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and things and this was before cell phones. So we didn't have phones and, yeah, I got left at the Galleria and then II, I had to hitchhike home. Are you kidding me? But are you over what happened a few years ago? That I don't know. Yeah.

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Oh my God. We live to tell the tale. That was, that's, that, that was one of the best of our daughter ever did that. Now, the cell phones they never get. Ok. That's it.