It should be a welcomed reminder, in the day-to-day haze of always needing more, when those basic components that make life livable suddenly climb to the top of must-haves.
One day, maybe a year ago, I was out somewhere with my daughter, doing wholesome, family stuff, and I see a friend with his child and say hello.
That little nugget of regurgitated political jive comes four paragraphs down in the latest press release from the Office of the Governor.
Six years ago Malia Krolak and Michael Crespo were having the same conversation we all have every summer: There's just nothing to do.
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