In no particular order
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1.When the Eagles WON THE SUPER BOWL! (February 2018)
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2.When Eagles fans broke the awning of the Ritz Carlton Hotel because too many people were standing on it... and then started running through the streets with the broken pieces. (February 2018)
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3.When the City of Philadelphia needed to put Crisco on poles to stop people from climbing on them... and that stopped no one. (February 2018)
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4.When Gritty was revealed to be the new mascot for the Flyers. (September 2018)
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5.When the Rocky legacy continued with the (in my opinion, much better) newest installment in the series, Creed II. (November 2018)
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6.When so many of the Eagles players refused to visit the White House after their Super Bowl win that Trump, in a classically childish fit, uninvited them. (February 2018)
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7.When Trump made the mistake of trying to come to this city, and Gritty became a symbol of leftist protests. (October 2018)
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8.When 7,000 insects, some of them dangerous, were stolen from a museum in what has since been deemed “The Insect Heist.” (August 2018)
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9.When the City of Philadelphia ended their agreement with ICE to share data from arrests. (July 2018)
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10.When the City of Philadelphia passed the “Fair Workweek” bill, which guarantees workers 11 hours to rest between shifts and requires employers to post schedules two weeks in advance, give hours to current employees instead of hiring someone else for less pay, and pay employees for cancelled shifts, to go into effect in 2020. (December 2018)
Liz is a fiction reader here at LF | BT, but more importantly, she’s one hell of a writer. Just look up her flash fiction and nonfiction pieces scattered around the internet, making it a better place to spend time with every word of hers that gets published (even when she’s writes about a having the wrong tooth pulled at the dentist, which is pretty much the stuff of nightmares).
