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Submitted to Contest #301
I haven’t thought about it for years, decades probably. It was late fall, a perfect Indian Summer week, later than usual, the kind that I had loved as a kid. Maybe Indian Summer is not the acceptable term any longer except for old people, but you know what I mean. Warm, sunny days, bright colors on the trees, and cool crisp nights. A final glorious sliver of summer before the cold ends it with a vengeance. And once the cold arrives, it’s best to forget everything before the cold and just do what’s necessary to survive the long, dark win...
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