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I have a story for the season. I’m not sure which season yet.

It could be an Easter story, but then there’s already one of those. And sometimes people think you’re referring to chocolate bunnies, and it’s hard to construct a decent metaphor out of those. Something about melting, maybe.

It could certainly be a story about spring, about rebirth, about planting seeds for a distant future. About digging out those cargo shorts and knowing, deep down, that they’re never going to fit again. Not after this winter.

I think we could use a good spring story, come to think of it. Weather a...