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When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow fal...more

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The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but th...more

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The sidewalks were haunted by dustghosts all night as the furnace wind summoned them up,swung them about, and gentled them down in a warm spice onthe ...more

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And they left the mellow light of the dandelion wine and went upstairs to carry out the last few rituals of summer, for they felt that now the final d...more

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June dawns, July noons, August evenings over, finished, done, and gone forever with only the sense of it all left here in his head. Now, a whole autum...more

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Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

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Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so st...more

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Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons.

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School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost complete...more

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It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into ...more

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I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significance of body and morals. It was that love that was ...more