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It's late getting started, then. We've not had any frost yet and it's
only a week or so to my birthday. November 1947 was arctic.

ITYF that the winter of '1947' began in earnest in February 1948 -
that's how I remember it. Indeed, it snowed on my birthday, 30th April.

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Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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