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...hat all changed that summer. Eli’s parents made aliyah, the term Jews use when one elevates himself. In this case, Eli’s family moved to Israel. I saw him one more time when my family took a vacation to Israel that summer, but it wasn’t the same. By fifth grade, we completely forgot about the other. I haven’t talked to Eli since then. Although, if he is still the same ‘kool kat’ I left back in the day, I sure don’t mind seeing him again. Dear Nikoli Machiavelli, I wish I could be friends with you, author of The Prince. I know that you were born in the thirteenth century during the renaissance period to an influential Italian family, the Medici’s. That’s totally wicked. I heard that one of your cousins, a politician, asked him his opinion on a certain policy. Legend has it that you responded with The Prince, a political essay (about sixty pages long). That’s quite a bit longer then the five paragraph essays we do in school. The Prince basically advised rulers to rule with fear rathe...