Summer memories -- ice cream truck coming down the street ringing the bell. Begging my mom to let us get some ice cream -- ice cream was so much better off the truck than from our freezer. Catching lightning bugs in a jar at dusk. Dead fish flies (yuck) on the Julien Dubuque bridge that connects Iowa and Illinois. Going to Chicago with my dad to watch the Cubs play at Wrigley Field. Waving sparklers on July 4. Hearing the bugs that make the humming noise starting in early August -- that meant that school would be starting in a few weeks. Walking 4 blocks to the bookmobile once a week to check out books from the library.
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