Like every year since years were invented, it's impossible to perfectly define the last 12 months of human existence in a convenient word or two. That didn't stop writers from trying.
So here, in no particular order, is a short and mostly nonsensical list of a few of the ways we have already tried to proclaim 2013 the year of... something.
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