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| Spring has arrived and with it comes memories evoked by the scent of cherry blossoms, freshly mown grass, newly budding trees and lawn clippings clinging to shoes wetted down by a stroll across the quad; wasps buzzing at the doors, making people duck as they enter or leave; birds chirping inside the walls, as they nest at the outside corner of the roof; screens hanging off of clotheslines as they're hosed down, patched up and rehung; jackhammers and backloaders rumbling and clattering in haste to finish a new building; temperatures rising and falling so that it becomes farcical to even attempt to dress weather-appropriate; cats catterwalling their cries for mates; the train's whistle traveling further in the stillness of night; a bounce to your step that comes unbidden and makes your feet smile; sighs escape as lovers, younger and younger, dance past your eyes and sing into your heart; a touch remembered as your hand brushes across your face, pushing a lock of hair away from your forehead; and the memories keep flooding your mind... Friday night tortilla bakes; chiller theater goosebumps; that first flower brought "just because;" forgiveness begged, forgiveness given; wounds slowly healed by the scent of cherry blossoms, freshly mown grass, newly budding trees and lawn clippings clinging to shoes...
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