Dear Kansas

I'm sorry to hear you might be having ice storms tomorrow. If it's any consolation, I've stopped wearing sandals, and sometimes have to put on a long sleeved shirt in the evenings.

This is the sort of thing I will, in some sense of the term, miss:

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