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\u201cAnd then, quite suddenly, summer was over.<\/strong>
\nHe knew it first when walking downtown. Tom grabbed his arm and pointed gasping, at the dimestore window. They stood there unable to move because of the things from another world displayed so neatly, so innocently, so frighteningly, there.<\/strong>
\n“Pencils, Doug, ten thousand pencils!”<\/strong>
\n“Oh, my gosh!”<\/strong>
\n“Nickel tablets, dime tablets, notebooks, erasers, water colors, rulers, compasses, a hundred thousand of them!”<\/strong>
\n“Don’t look. Maybe it’s just a mirage.”<\/strong>
\n“No,” moaned Tom in despair. “School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer’s even over! Ruin half the vacation!\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2015 Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cJune 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 autumn, a white winter, a cool and greening spring to figure sums and totals of summer past. And if he should forget, the dandelion wine stood in the cellar, numbered huge for each and every day. He would go there often, stare straight into the sun until he could stare no more, then close his eyes and consider the burned spots, the fleeting scars left dancing on his warm eyelids; arranging, rearranging each fire and reflection until the pattern was clear…<\/strong>
\nSo thinking, he slept.<\/strong>
\nAnd, sleeping, put an end to Summer, 1928.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2015 Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The yearly ritual continues.<\/p>\n
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