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it's hot in California

I’m back! Did you miss me? I wrote about Free Dirt for the Paris Review Daily and you can read it 🌱 here 🌱.

Photograph caption dated September 27, 1963 reads: "Gene Merlino, 7734 Atoll Ave., North Hollywood, joins his three candles in wilting during the current heat wave. The candles sagged sadly after the air-conditioning unit broke down at Merlino's …