Keating Argument

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I attached the film poster and the script to this email, I was hoping you could make the bracelets alternating the beads, for example one containing the film poster and the other containing a quote.
Since the script is 89 pages long, there's no need to print it completely so I chose some pages with the quotes I like the most:
- from page 10 to page 12 (Keating's whole speech to the boys about seizing the day and making their lives extraordinary)
- page 19 (especially the part with the quote starting with "We don't read and write poetry..." and ending with "What will your verse be?")
- page 22
- page 28
- page 34
- from page 43 to page 45 (the dialogue between Keating and Todd)
- from page 87 to page 89 (the last scene where Keating goes to

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