re: Alabama Gov. Ivey expected to update state health order, mask mandate Thursday

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I teared up a bit tonight thinking of how great this summer will be.

We will feel the flesh of others again. We will be embracing our loved ones in the heat and haze. Enjoy it. It will be the single greatest feeling of victory since the Japanese surrendered.

The national psyche will be healed. The ranks of the employed will swell, while unemployment recedes. Business owners will see their registers fill.

The elderly and the vulnerable will be protected with a miracle of man's own creation.

All of this will be happening under the beautiful blue of summer days and radiant orange and gentle cream of summer evenings.

Savor the laughter and the joyful din that will be rising in the east with the summer sun.

There will never be another season like it. Everywhere you look, in all shapes and forms, people will find out how to live again. And they can do it without worrying about the microscopic menace from the orient.

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