Yesterday, my school held its annual spring concert, bringing everyone outside for a day and night's worth of fun in what was impossibly nice weather. The school year is winding to a close, everyone's starting to feel the stress of finals, and so it was really the last chance for us to have some carefree fun before we take off for the summer. So when I trudged over to breakfast half asleep this morning, I assumed the Tweets about a birth-certificate conversation at the White House must have come from people riffing on the latest Donald Trump line. Yet sure enough, this morning the President held a conference at which copies of his long-form birth certificate were handed out to the media, to finally settle the "birther" debate that had been rigorously occupying the mind of the most politically unserious in this country.
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