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Alexander McQueen Lace Pencil Dress for Pam’s Fangtasia look

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Monique Lhuillier Embroidered Tulle Ballgown

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Klaus Mikaelson as Jay Gatsby

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Original F.Scott Fitzgerald’s manuscript poems

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“To 1st Lt. F. Scott Fitzgerald 65th Infantry Camp Sheridan Forget-me-not Zelda 9-13-18 Montgomery, Ala”

“While stationed at Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama, Fitzgerald met his future wife, Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge.” (via University of South Carolina)

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World War I ended before Fitzgerald deployed. Had it gone on, there might have been no Gatsby.

It’s worth remembering that wars do not cost only lives, but also all the things those lives would make.

Whenever I hear someone in the Bush administration refuse to acknowledge that the Iraq War was a mistake (an honest mistake, I trust, but still a tragic one), I think of the would-be Fitzgeralds—American and Iraqi—whose flasks we will never see on tumblr, because we will never have the good and beautiful things they would’ve brought into the world.

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Ah, Gatsby *warm fuzzy feelings*

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