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Roommates become the archive

A shared student life becomes a long memory and a practical network.

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Roommates, classmates, lifelong friends
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Karri Melvaer Wallsten (BA ’93) shares memories of being a student in the 1990s and meeting friends who remain close and recently travelled to Mexico together.

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