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Weekly Contest #308
We always used to picnic on the summer solstice, dreaming of sun and eternity. ‘Longest of the year’ is what my mother told me as a young girl, when I asked about what made the day so special. ‘Don’t waste it. We don’t get our days back’. So we didn’t. Summer was when we fell in love with the world again, with the flowers and the birds and the taste of strawberries. I always wished those days would never end. That last picnic almost convinced me they wouldn’t. It was hot and we lay in the dappled shade of eucalypts, listening to the cicadas ...
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