It is one of those memories that I carry around, and always will, like the shard of a shell that falls out of a bag you took to the beach for a long summer.

这是我时刻并将一直携带，就像是挂在我的包上那一枚在某个漫长的夏天到海滩上拾到的贝壳。

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One summer night many years ago, while walking home from work, I heard the most joyous music emanating, like an aural glow, from the basement of a church a few blocks from the house where I grew up.

许多年前的一个夏夜，在我下班回家的途中，从离家不远的教堂地下室传出最欢快的音乐，犹如一束听觉之光。

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That summer my city was like a huge steamer box. We put off one day to another the plan to buy a mosquito net, just to save money.

那个夏天，城市像个巨大的蒸笼，可为了省钱，我们一天天向后推着买蚊帐的时间。

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This story unfolded in February 2006, with a furor like that of one of those summer thunderstorms that periodically sweep across the nation's capital, seeming to arise out of nowhere, building rapidly to a loud and frightening climax, and then moving out again, leaving Washingtonians to wonder what had hit them.

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And sometimes on warm breezy summer afternoons like this one, he pauses to see if he can see what he has grown.

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Now operated by a charitable trust, the R Tucker Thompson runs summer day sails like this one to fund its work with local children.

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