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The Great Summer Playground Escape
Summertime at school play, free lunch free breakfast handball kickball tetherball dodgeball carroms board game music ice cream children time away from home in the neighborhood
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…I took the board, my hands trembling slightly. "Thanks," I managed, a huge grin splitting my face. "So," Sam piped up, bouncing on the balls of his feet, "does this mean we can all play now?" Kai looked at his friends, then back at us. He shrugged. "Why not? We’re all here, right?" A sense of relief washed over me, followed by a wave of something even better: friendship. The rivalry, the suspicion, it all melted away under the summer sun. We had our game back, and we’d made new friends in the process. The great summer playground escape was turning out to be even better than I’d imagined.