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Fairfax, Ohio     August 4, 2014     3:58 pm–5:25 pm     warm with occasional breeze     87 °F     short-sleeve shirt, hiking pants, sandals, wide-brimmed sun hat, hair pulled back     sidewalk under cardboard got very hard and uncomfortable     roar and idle of heavy machinery at first; men’s voices     young man went in to house next to me; another emerged with curious dog     periodic rise of cicada whine     muted chirping of birds     dull hum of traffic