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IT'S NOT THAT I'M SUCH A BIG FAN OF talking about the weather (I'd understand, Dear Reader, if you were to get a little scowl on your face right now and point wordlessly to my last several postings), but I can't help but rhapsodize about today's. We got another infusion of rain...administered slowly and gently and over many hours' time. There's something so fundamentally satisfying about having a basic need met after it's been withheld for so long. We needed this rain--all the perfect strangers with whom I discussed this agreed. When I walked out of the drugstore this afternoon and exclaimed, "Oh, it's raining again!" a gentleman opening his umbrella added, "And that's a good thing!" So it is.

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