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Summer’s in the rearview mirror, re-experience it at your peril. it’ll only distract you now, and maybe depress you. Summer shifts your orbit, from classrooms and remote zooms, to lollygagging by beaches and snuggling in cozy hotel rooms. As intense and vital as last summer was - as they all are - it’s already blurring in memory. Soon only the memory of sensations will remain, like the warmth of the breeze and the sun on my skin and sigh the warmth of a certain boy’s skin on my skin. Those flashbacks ache, late at night, like phantom limbs. . . Songs for this: All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow

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