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The Cost of Carelessness: What You Don’t See
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Advisory: What’s the point?
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Snapshots of serenity: Northern California beaches
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SA’s fashion icons: Teacher edition!
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Sonoma Academy gears up for next week’s “Tin Woodsman”
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A deep dive into SA’s club athletes
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A glitch in the game: Why ABS needs to change
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“No one knew”: The underrecognition of female athletes at SA
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A deep dive into SA’s club athletes
Cerise Difference
How To Fall In Love Softly
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How To Fall In Love Softly

One of two winners of the Poetry Contest!
Franchesca Cohen (’28)
February 27, 2026

Rain Falls Hard
Books Fall Hard
People
Fall
Hard.
But me?
I
Fall
Soft.
In a way
I
Fall Harder
Than
Anyone and everything
But
I
Fall
Soft
Because I
Transform into
Jelly
And
Smiles
And eyes
And Kind thoughts
And Dreams
So
Many
Dreams.
I hope and
I delusionally
Let myself
Think
You notice
My Dreams
So Many
Dreams
And Kind thoughts
And Eyes
And Smiles
And Jelly
That You
Transform
Into the
Dreams
So many
Dreams.
I
Hope
We
Fall Harder
Softly.

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