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“Then summer came. A summer limp with the weight of blossomed things. Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of corn letting their auburn hair wind down to their stalks. And the boys. The beautiful, beautiful boys who dotted the landscape like jewels, split the air with their shouts in the field, and thickened the river with their shining wet backs. Even their footsteps left a smell of smoke behind.”

Excerpt from Sulaby Toni MorrisonPg. 56

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A summer limp with the weight of

blossomed things.

Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences.

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Excerpt from How Stella Got Her Groove Backby Terry McMillanSecond Paragraph Chapter One

“Thank God its Saturday. And Thank God its summertime. No more three-day-a-week Little League practice (rain or shine) or those long games. No week-on/week off revolving carpooling forgetting it’s my week and calling the parents of the abandoned children who are still standing out in the rain for an hour after I forgot them because they are all -including my own son- too dumb to call someone else. And thank the Lord there is nowhere I have to be …”

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I don’t have to be anywhere

I don’t haveto worry about

any kids

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Terry McMillan describes summer as a time full of care-free days with no responsibilities.

Sula

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Toni Morrison, in her book Sula, describes summer as being limp with weeping flowers.

Toni Morrison, in her book Sula, describes summer as being limp with weeping flowers and ears of corn letting their hair down.

Terry McMillan summer describes as a time full of carefree days with no responsibilities.

Describing Summer as a time to relax

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