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Mary's Sem Paper: A Tale of Woe.

Mary's Seminar Paper was to be between 24 and 25 pages in length. NO LESS than three-quarters of the 24th page to be filled; no MORE than the very last line of the 25th page. This is a DEPARTMENTAL requirement.

Mary wrote and wrote and wrote and thought she wouldn't have a long enough paper, because she had only seventeen full pages written when she woke up this morning.

Boy was SHE in for a surprise.

Length of paper with 12-pt. font and 1.25" margins: 28 pages and two lines.

Length of paper with all double spaces after periods converted to single spaces: 27 and three-quarters pages.

Length of paper with 1" margins (the actual size requested by the professor): 26 and a half pages.

Length of paper with .9" margins and 11.5-pt. font: 24 pages and two lines.

Final length of paper with 1.1" margins and 11.5-pt. font: 24 and a half pages.

If Kyra takes a ruler to Mary's margins, Mary is going to beat her to death with her copy of The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume One.