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Submitted to Contest #91
Marisol had a bit of a love/hate relationship with summers.Summers meant no school, hours of playing in the hot, burning sun with her cousins, an excuse to run around in the sprinklers with her dog. Summers meant dealing with a finicky, window AC that only cooled one room, that dripped water at odd times and broke down regularly, and never got quite as cold as the library could.Mom had so many books. They were all about medicine and cooking and had a bunch of big words that Marisol didn't really understand. Sometimes the small words were har...
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