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By James G. Brown
Special to the Rappahannock News
At eight o’clock the other evening the air was still and hot as I topped off the gas tank and went inside to pay. ’
A storm had gone through a half an hour before but all it did was settle the dust around the service station and top the humidity off at 100 ■percent.
The thermometer said only 86 degrees but I think it was so glad to feel a bit of rain that it dropped in anticipation and then wasn’t willing to go back up to where it should have been.
The clerk had had a long day Wisps of damp hair hung over her face as she absent-mindedly ran my credit card through the reader.
While the card was being
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