A Forced Retraction, Forced by the Forceful Forceps of Ali-dom

Let's see if I can remember this...

I apparently erroneously reported that Ali's set of 24 people screaming their collective faces off at graduation were "borderline immature." What I MEANT to type was "completely appropriately enthusiastic for Ali's grand accomplishment. They represented the epitome of class and style as they whooped and hollered and otherwise drew attention to themselves in a boisterous manner. The fact that I am just now regaining hearing in my left ear is testament to their austere manner and worldly wisdom."

And now an honest retraction: I did not mean to imply by any means that Emily was not vibrant or beautiful. What I *said* was that she was less vibrant in real life than on TV, given that in real life she is not constantly overpuffed with makeup or frontlit with floor and overhead lamps. So relative to my in-brain images of her, which are all very *bright*, she merely looked like a normal human style version of beauty. Fear not, Alex-add-ra, your friend is indeed wicked hot and beautiful, etc., I would totally have hit on her except that 1, Beck was there which would have rendered it awkward, and 2, the real reason that she didn't seem that vibrant is that she was at the party for the Prettiest Girl of All-Time, who was only enhanced in beauty by her center-of-attention-ness.

I have no idea whether I am still allowed to write such things given my newly acquired matrimonial state. In fact, my left hand seems to be asdvrevberbEADFWECecsdcecwe dragging on the keyboard for some reason....