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I took him to the river and said “let’s watch something drown, ” So he took a stoneand I took my necklaceand we threw it all together, the way I always think I will get better in July. Things will change and sounds won’t acheand I gave my heart to uncertainty so many times, and so I took him to the river, threw the necklace in the river to slowly watch it drown, or burn, or fade awaylike I’ve done so many times.Charlotte Eriksson
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I have hopein who I am becoming. I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word I have ever spokenor been toldbecause it is still teaching meand I have hope in who I am becoming. They say it takes 756 days to run to someone you loveand they also say that the only romance worth fighting foris the one with yourselfand I know by nowthat they say a lot of things, people talking everywherewithout saying a word, but if it took me all those years to learn myselfor teach myselfhow to look into the mirrorwithout breaking it I know for a fact that it was a fight worth fighting. I stood up for my own head and so did my heartand we are coming to terms with ourselves. Shaking hands, saying ”let’s make this workfor we have places to goand people to seeand we will need each other” So I have hopein who I am becoming. It’s Julyand I have hope in who I am becoming.Charlotte Eriksson
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They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.Bill Bryson
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But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.Joanna Franklin Bell
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We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth... It has no day.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In June we picked the clover, And sea-shells in July:There was no silence at the door, No word from the sky. A hand came out of AugustAnd flicked his life away: We had not time to bargain, mope, Moralize, or pray.Cecil DayLewis
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Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.John Waters
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The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.Caitlyn Jenner