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Our Doomed Love Affair with Summer

FALL BACK

PJ O'Rourke bids summer goodbye and good riddance, after fantasies of freedom and sweaty self-improvement die hard under a steady barrage of gin and tonics.

P. J. O’Rourke
P. J. O’Rourke
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Summer, you bitch, you’re leaving me again. You lethargic, unfocused, unstable, lazy, hazy, crazy time of year. Why do I always take you back?

Because you’re hot.

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