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A HEATED DEBATE

BACK IN THE days before we preheated the planet to meltdown level, summer holidays meant going to the beach. Everyone went to the beach. We were expected to go to the beach. It was unpatriotic not to go to the beach

Old-timers remember how it was. I was discussing the summer break with an old-timer the other day and he asked, “Are you going to the beach?”

“Those were

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