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    We love February

    Jan 20, 2022 3 minutes
    WORDS James Alexander-Sinclair
    “Though February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises”
    Charmaine J Forde

    drizzly, defeating and dreich. I don’t know why there are so many words beginning with D that so expressively describe the weather at this time of year. Perhaps when the letters of the alphabet were milling around waiting to be sorted into some sort of language, the letter D did something unmannerly enough to seriously upset the lexicographical

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