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O summer!

O summer! THIS is what summer feels like. How could I ever forget?! The promise of nourishing sunshine and sweltering heat wrapped around you like a favourite garment. Flip-flopping to a rhythm only familiar to you, humming to unfamiliar tunes that feel so real in your heart. (care)Free, exposed, reckless, unhurried, mighty and small, both a superman and a child. Summer. The glistening mane of horses on pasture at sunset. The smell of the sea infused with the flavour of your early morning coffee. The sweetest chill of pistachio ice-cream between your teeth that urges you to look up and see...that the sky is full of stars, so many stars. On a night like this, I would have been chasing fireflies in my grandparents' garden centuries ago...(Will I ever see fireflies again? May I?) And it's all enough, simply sufficient, just right. There are no question marks, no dependencies or nice-to-haves. The poetry is in the prose. Every day. You go to bed content. You wake up and do it all