May 17th


interregnum (http://definr.com/interregnum)

     n : the time between two reigns, governments, etc.

Notable quote

Many of my students have returned to college after some manner of life interregnum: a year or two of post-high-school dissolution, or a large swath of simple middle-class existence, 20 years of the demands of home and family.

-- In the Basement of the Ivory Tower - The Atlantic

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