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Remembering those care-free days

As the cooler weather approaches and summer is now in the rearview mirror, I’ll take a moment to share a more recent summer memory.

In the evenings, my wife and I often strolled down a neighboring street that had been transformed into a construction site. Actually, it is just one of several projects near my house that have resulted in mounds of dirt piled up, concrete components for the sewers lined up on the side of the road and various open trenches. Seeing all this, I was taken back to my youth – when it wouldn’t have been a construction project to me back then,

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