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Our sun-kissed skin and summer-stricken spirits faced an abrupt

end to the nearly three-month oasis from school when August snuck

up on us. That one summer of 2011 began its scholarly transition.

That Banana Boat tanning oil and Ray-

Ban shades became a Tl-84 Inspire and

spiral notebooks. Those minutes between

flight connections to exotic vacation spots

and World Geo. That overplayed chorus of 15 fall -·
turned into the seven between AP Calc. ~ .

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Neyo's Give Me Everything morphed into try-outs ., ~. - .·•· .•· •.. . '\ .
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Mr. Begley's familiar intercom address, brush-up

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"Can I have your attention for just a mo-
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ment, please?" Yes, those summer times

came and went, but we anxiously braced

ourselves for the many "that one time"s

promised by the upcoming school year.