Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found myself alone at home. The mothers were gone for the weekend, the cousins all shipped to work for the day. "What will I do with this blissfully quintessential Sunday afternoon?" I asked myself. Exercise at my leisure, take a shower, read the newspaper over a steaming plate of eggs? Perhaps visit a friend who I had been meaning to see, but somehow returning as quickly as politeness would allow to my temporary Isle of Solitude...
...When the afternoon hummed to a close, I had eaten only one raspberry-kiwi frozen fruit bar. I had had enough time only to decide that I like the peach variety better, as I adore the "real fruit chunks." I had read only one chapter of Bastard Out of Carolina, and the protagonist hadn't even finished sketching out her family history. The impending return of my cousins from work buzzed around my head like an increasingly angered insect, steadily rising in decibel. But the pleasures alone-ness had brought to me over that short afternoon, ephemeral as they...
Hoping that its dearth of offense against New Hampshire was an aberation, the Harvard field hockey team (1-1, 0-0 Ivy League) seeks more production when it faces Vermont this afternoon...
Showers likely in the morning. Becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon...
...Harvard women's soccer team should be under no illusions about its opponent this afternoon at Ohiri Field, as unglamorous as Hartford may seem...