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Ides of March

March 15th (the Ides of March) is remembered as the day of Julius Caesar's assassination. "Beware the Ides of March," a soothsayer warned him, but the warning made no difference.

Write about something that happened in your life that you wished someone would have warned you about before it happened. If you had been warned, would you have listened? How might your life have been different?

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