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First Day of Summer Vacation!

By | June 5, 2015

I woke up thinking of 12-year-old Douglas Spaulding today: “A whole summer ahead to cross off the calendar, day by day. Like the goddess Siva in the travel books, he saw his hands jump everywhere, pluck sour apples, peaches, and midnight plums. He would be clothed in trees and bushes and rivers. He would freeze,… Read More »