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Submitted to Contest #276
I don’t think I ever faulted my cousins that day. That day when the air was so thick and the heat was so vain it showed little mercy on anyone who dared to taunt its ways. That day when every kid on the block felt a little constrained, a little conflicted as to whether a dip in the local pool was worth the three-minute sprint from porch-to-concrete, driveway-to-STOP sign, and finally a mad dash across oncoming traffic to blissful relief from our notorious 1990s Chicago summers. We were all far too naïve to think our [pre]teen minds perceived...
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