Article: It's over all too soon; Summer goes fast - it's already halftime.(VARIETY)(Kim Ode)

Byline: Kim Ode; Staff Writer

It's halftime in the game of summer. And as anyone who's staked out a sideline knows, there are two ways to go into halftime: ahead, with a momentum that carries the promise of victory, or behind, which requires a pep talk to reignite the desire to win.

Of course, what we win is fall. But games have been played for less. Maybe we'll go into overtime.

I'm talking about the state-mandated summer, of course - the summer that exists between the last day of school and the first day of school, which should not be confused with the calendar summer of 13 weeks cobbled up by Copernicus and Pope Gregory, which should not be ...

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