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My Summer of Nothing – The Pennsylvania Gazette

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I slump on the couch beside her, sister arm to sister arm, legs stretched heavy on the coffee table, fudgsicles in hand. I’ve brought my book and am half reading, half watching, until eventually the book has fallen and I’m glued to our nightly slough of reality reruns and cheap Netflix originals. Rosey falls asleep quickly, her breath warm and regular, face flushed like a baby mid-nap. She works at a soccer camp, wrangling kids into shin guards, slathering them with sunscreen, and consoling sore losers. She ends her days tired but satisfied, and with a farmer’s tan of increasing severity. And in the maternal way of older sisters, I am glad now too to see her resting. I remain awake, though. Laugh track washing over me like a chill, it is in these small, dark hours that I wish I’d done more with my day. My friends from college are doing impressive things this summer. My roommate works at a bank in Brazil, wearing pencil skirts and pantsuits, calculating with a level of math I’ll probabl

My Summer of Nothing – The Pennsylvania Gazette Essays Voices My Summer of Nothing 26 Aug 2024 0 So many things I could have done. By Lila Dubois In the seeping cool twilight of summer, I meet my sister for television. I slump on the couch beside her, sister arm to sister arm, legs stretched heavy on the coffee table, fudgsicles in hand. I’ve brought my book and am half reading, half watching, until eventually the book has fallen and I’m glued to our nightly slough of reality reruns and cheap Netflix originals. Rosey falls asleep quickly, her breath warm and regular, face flushed like a

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