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While we slog through grading for Winter Quarter, two cartoons today: a Zits and and a Pearls about keeping secrets, or at least trying to.

A Zits in which teens are depicted as using allusions adults won’t get:

(#1)

(There are many ways to achieve privacy.)

And the Pearls, with blacking out of methamphetamines (“meth”):

(#2)

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