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Why I'm Not Singing The Back-To-School Blues

by Mindy Trotta
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We’ve had a good run with lots of great memories of playdates and class trips and parents’ weekends and football games during homecoming, and who am I kidding, I do feel some sorrow that all those days are over. But in a few weeks, at just about the time when testing begins and SATs are scheduled and college apps will need to go out, I’ll be drowning my sorrows in some wine on a bike in France. Don’t cry for me.

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