{"id":5820,"date":"2018-02-24T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:57:50","slug":"day-24-red-berets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stripedpineapple.com\/?p=5820","title":{"rendered":"Day 24: Red Berets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reasons you should wear a red beret:<\/p>\n

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It makes you look like a grand writer full of noble thoughts and ideas.<\/p>\n

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It makes everybody want to insert you into their pictures when you’re visiting a tumbling down, picturesque graveyard, because you look like a storybook character.<\/p>\n

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It means your roommate can always find you, whether in a forest or a shopping mall, which is pretty difficult for her seeing how little and brown you are without it.<\/p>\n

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It keeps your ears warm when there’s a surprise snowstorm. Also, it makes you look like a postcard.<\/p>\n

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It makes you adorable even when you’re cavorting down the roads of downtown in childish glee at said surprise snowstorn.<\/p>\n

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It makes your roommate impossibly jealous that she didn’t think to buy one first.<\/p>\n

You want one too?<\/a><\/p>\n

A year ago:\u00a0Alyssa Serene<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Reasons you should wear a red beret: It makes you look like a grand writer full of noble thoughts and ideas. It makes everybody want to insert you into their pictures when you’re visiting a tumbling down, picturesque graveyard, because you look like a storybook character. It means your roommate can always find you, whether in a forest or a shopping mall, which is pretty difficult for her seeing how little and brown you are without it. It keeps your…<\/p>\n

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