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ghdujcgfkfAs a young student in India, every June, the first day of school, I was asked to write an essay that was always titled: "How I spent my summer vacation". "And make it interesting," my teachers would advise. I assumed that mere recountings of my days spent reading Nancy Drews would not qualify as "interesting". Neither would my detailed accounts of making paper straws and trying to blow bubbles with glycerin solution. So I always made something up—like visits to fairly exotic locales like Poona. I made sure the locales were not very exotic (very tempted to write the Himalayas once) or else the teacher would smell a rat.

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Now that I am older, I can say it like it is. So here's a sampling from my diary of a few weeks this summer:

Week #1:

Every year, we have faithfully vacationed in Camden, ME. It is truly a wondrous place right on the ocean and qualifies for a very relaxing vacation.

This year, we thought we'd try something different and booked ourselves a......

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