What Summer?

My nephew approached me few nights ago and asked: What is Summer?

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Such a simple question but it took me a minute to answer because all my past summers came flashing back. To name a few I decided to jot a few things down and see if I can still remember them....

•  Drinking secretly at the UPLB Freedom Park Grounds, with HS friends, while watching the stars.
•  Sleepover's at Escobin's Blue Box Computer Shop at YMCA in UPLB.
• Got my first try of the "blow job" drink at Leandro's. No Elbi Square yet during that time.
• The Blackett sibs, my cousins, coming home from UK with an automatic plan that we'll all go out of town.
• Summer of 1998, before everything started.
• Getting something done, haircut perhaps?
• Being literally out of school's vicinity...

My first Academic School year will end in a few weeks and I have no plans for summer. It's been seven years since I had my last taste of a real summer vacation and not "Summer Vacation Leave" (which is only a few days. Other than describing beaches, summer hats, sun glasses and SPF lotions, I had forgotten what "Summer" really meant.

I want to go somewhere this Summer. Somewhere that does not lead to a memory. Hopefully.