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Submitted to Contest #202
The First Day of Summer The arrival of summer 1966 marked the end of our time at Washington Elementary School. West Harbor was getting ready to open a new high school and the old one had been designated our first junior high. My brother Rich and his class would be the last to complete all eight grades at Washington and the first freshman class at the new high school. While Rich and his friends wore that knowledge as a badge, my classmates and I were just as certain of our own sophistication. We had already turned twelve, and we would be s...
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