The Summer is just getting started up here, north of the 49th Parallel but from where I sit it’s looking like it’s going to be a long one. I’m talking about the length of Summer, not the length of the 49th Parallel. But since you brought it up, the 49th parallel makes up almost 1300 miles of the US-Canada border. File that piece of useless trivia away and instead, consider the feature image for this article, a promotional poster for the 2012 movie “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” which starred Mel Gibson, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Jane Fonda and a long list of people I’ve never heard of.
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