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by Anonymous - October 14, 2006

What are you really curious about? How has this curiosity affected your life? What happens to you when you experience this curiosity?

What do Walt Whitman, Howard Roark, and I have in common? Passion. Passion for life, for architecture, and for viruses. When I read The Cobra Event in eighth grade, I had a cinematic picture of viruses. I imagined there were millions of deadly virus particles swirling around me, unleashed by a mad-man bent on taking care of the population problem…

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