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Chattanooga Heat

When it's just too hot for comfort,
and you can't get ice cream cones,
it ain't no sin to take off your skin
and dance around in your bones.

(from my Grandmother in Chattanooga, TN)

Copyright © Elinor Swanson | Year Posted 2017

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Date: 6/26/2017 3:23:00 PM

This was fun and sounds like something my grandmother might have said.

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