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			<p><strong>Tarun Sivanandan:</strong><br>I remember stepping onto Grounds for the first time.</p>
			<p><strong>Anushka Dar:</strong><br>I immediately fell in love, and I was like, “This place is stunning.”</p>
			<p><strong>Sivanandan:</strong><br>You look at the architecture, you look at the spaces.</p>
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			<p><strong>Jie Lu:</strong><br>UVA is accomplished, passionate students.</p>
			<p><strong>Sivanandan:</strong><br>Behind that work ethic is curiosity.</p>
			<p><strong>Rola Suleiman:</strong><br>You get to meet so many people who have such different views in life and you could learn from.</p>
			<p><strong>Gregory:</strong><br>It’s a family of people that want to come together and want to be better.</p>
			<p><strong>Suleiman:</strong><br>UVA’s really a student-led place.</p>
			<p><strong>Dar:</strong><br>We have the opportunity to leave this school better than we found it.</p>
			<p><strong>Sivanandan:</strong><br>When you’re in the stands at a UVA game, everybody that you see, our smiles are beaming.</p>
			<p><strong>Caleb Macey:</strong><br>It’s electric.</p>
			<p><strong>Suleiman:</strong><br>If you’re not coming to a game to lose your voice, why are you there?</p>
			<p><strong>Ben Nilson:</strong><br>UVA means community, where everybody can come together and celebrate being a Hoo.</p>
			<p><strong>Gregory:</strong><br>It's its own bond, it’s its own community, it’s its own way of thinking.</p>
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			<p><strong>Lu:</strong><br>I know I will carry UVA with me. It will have a special place in my heart.</p>
			<p><strong>Sivanandan:</strong><br>Students at UVA view the University – as an opportunity to take an already powerful and meaningful institution and help make it into something that’s even better.</p>
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