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5 celebrations of summer from American writers

Check out these five literary celebrations of the sunny season.

5. 'Summer,' by Roger Ebert in 'Life Itself: A Memoir'

鈥淥ur bicycles were our freedom. We would head out for Crystal Lake Park, dogs braking behind us until they grew uninterested in this foolishness and fell back. Or maybe this would be a day when we would earn money. This we did by mowing lawns, or when we were younger taking a card table out to the sidewalk and opening a Kool-Aid stand. Some kid would announce that he was 'opening,' and we would look at him in envy, because he was in retail, and we wished we had thought of it first.鈥

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