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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
Teens
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Dread Black Fly Season
For those of you who do not live in New England, the reference to black flies might be conjuring up the wrong picture. We have lived all over the US, and have therefore experienced Minnesota mosquitoes (sometimes called the state bird); fleas in the yard in Nashville, and chiggers in Illinois. None of this prepared us for the onslaught of black flies in New Hampshire. Although they are so tiny they can barely be seen, the pain from bites by these little horrors can last for days and days. And days. Ouch. When is the Dread Black Fly Season, you ask? Most people here say they last from Mother's Day to Father's Day. As A BUSS FROM LAFAYETTE is set in late June, Clara is pretty safe from their bites out in the berry patch.
Book Excerpt
A Buss from Lafayette
Unfortunately, the crop was all too plentiful this year and the sun all too hot. The only thing making it bearable was the absence of black flies. Luckily, what my family called “the dread black fly season” was over.
Hmm, I thought, Hetty is like a black fly. A really enormous black fly. You can seldom see her stings coming, but the pain of them lasts for days and days and days.
Picturing my black-haired cousin zooming in like a black fly made me chuckle as I straightened up and stretched, trying to ease the ache in my back.
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