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GWYNEDD VALLEY Gwynedd Mercy Academy has a young team. There are only two seniors on the roster and just two players with district playoff experience from 2019.
When the eighth-seeded Monarchs took the field for the first round of the 2021 tournament, they looked like an experienced group. Senior Nicole Conwell scored 40 seconds into the game and GMA led the rest of the way, finishing with a 15-8 win over No. 9 Merion Mercy in the District 1-2A playoffs at Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School Tuesday afternoon.
âTeam-bonding on and off the field really made it feel like there werenât any grades,â Conwell said. âIt felt like everyone is a senior. The sophomores and juniors definitely stepped up and we have a lot of talent. They all play club and they all work hard outside of school.â
What Is the Inner Life of Jill Baxter on ‘It’s a Sin’?
It s a Sin.
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Note: The following contains some spoilers to the TV series It’s a Sin.
In my longtime survivor–heavy social-media world, everyone is talking about
It’s a Sin, screenwriter and producer Russell T. Davies’ five-episode HBO Max saga of a young gay friends group upended by the AIDS epidemic in London between 1981 and 1991. And the verdicts are all over the place.
To some, it’s painful, triggering unwanted PTSD. To others, it’s cathartic, triggering grief, rage, and tears bottled up for years. It rightfully identifies societal homophobia as triggering the shame that helped fuel the epidemic or it overemphasizes the shame (rather than the external homophobia), thereby reinforcing it. Its characters act and react in ways that don’t feel plausible in the view of people who lived through those years or its characters behave in ways that feel perfectly plausible, that