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OP - September 05, 2013, 05:38 PM

Dear, Summer of ‘13

It is with great regret and sadness to learn that today will be your last day, but what a last day it has been! Not content with leaving quietly, you blazed your last rays like a beacon of joy before heading south and sending us towards another autumn and winter. So it has prompted me to write you this letter, however nonsensical the act may seem.

Oh, Summer of ’13! You have exceeded my expectations. The prophets wailed out messages of doom and gloom for the next 10 years, but you rallied and gave us all a long overdue cheer. You have warmed the land and the souls of many who had been starved of a bright and sunny British season. You have shown our children what a summer is. At times it felt a little hot, but none dared complain given the poor showings of your formers, and yet still you took this summer to another level. Yes there were hot days, but it has to be said that you have been one of the most even summers in living memory. Almost every day a pleasant temperature that required us to wear no jackets or cardigans, or to strip down to the waist in an embarrassing show of burned skin.

So as I watch the weatherman this evening informing us of the storms to come this weekend, I know in my heart that your time with us is at an end. So goodbye, Summer of ’13. You will be fondly remembered along with loved ones in numerous photos taken by the people who enjoyed your company. 2013 will be a year many of us will remember for being “that lovely summer”.

P.S. Do you have a sister?

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Reply #1 - September 05, 2013, 05:47 PM

Goodbye summer. I know you'll be back but I take comfort that it won't be for a while yet and will again be only temporary.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #2 - September 05, 2013, 08:07 PM

Dear summer,

You suck. Why do you hate the Midwestern US so much? Actually, don’t answer that. I understand. I hate it too. But that doesn’t mean you had to completely abandon us. You have real fans here, summer—people who really love you and all that you represent—and you completely let them down this year.

What do you have to say to all of the children who didn’t get a chance experience the joy of swimming pools, water slides, and back yard sprinklers amongst the fireflies? What do you have to say to all of the scantly clad women, lathered in layers of sunscreen, who missed out on the chance to bask in the rays of your glorious sunshine? What do you have to say to all of us who you have left disappointed with below average temperatures, cloudy gray skies, and plenty of rain? Do you even care? Or are you just going to abandon us, aloof and oblivious to all the anguish your lackluster appearance has put us through? Don’t you know that you were our only hope? Don’t you realize that your departure ushers in nothing but a steady decline towards depressing darkness and decay? Really, summer, do you even care?

You were a rip off, summer, but we still love you here. We are your devoted, diehard, groupie fans who want nothing more than to frolic and flirt with the hottest season out there, even when you show up late, high, and hungover to your only scheduled performance of the year. So please, summer, if you are reading this, don’t disappoint us next year.

Sincerely,

Midwestern America
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Reply #3 - September 05, 2013, 08:21 PM

Dear summer,
is there any chance you can give up the blanket regional decree you're so fond of? Could you not perhaps be more selective? There are plenty of people who want you. they want you to make their lives hell. they want to toss and turn in exhaustion unable to sleep because of your nightmarish embrace. Who wish to step out of the shower and immediately start sweating again. Who embrace the searing heat and almost unending days where the sun's rays pound down and burn until the blissful release of the all to short night. Perhaps we could do an exchange? I would be happy to trade my share of summer for someone else's share of winter. Something to think about?

Yours,
Quod Sum Eris.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #4 - September 06, 2013, 01:33 PM

Hee hee.

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Reply #5 - September 06, 2013, 01:49 PM

Dear Summer of 13,
Storm clouds on the horizon? Not a bit of it, chaps. We're having a spiffing time.

(Hottest summer ever recorded in Osaka. It's a mere 30 degrees now. A blessed relief. But winter looms, and I hate winter.)
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