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" Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide. "
Nancy Gibbs
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" Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle. "
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