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Happy Summer Solstice! Today is the longest day of the year, a fact that Boredwalk co-founder Meredith firmly believes is proof that she is cursed and that the universe hates her, as it is also her birthday. I choose to believe that, if anything, the universe just wants to celebrate her for as long as possible — I know I do!
I don't like Mondays 😾
Happy Juneteenth! Today marks the anniversary of the end of slavery in the US. Technically this occurred in 1862 by congressional act and in 1863 by presidential proclamation, but travel and communication infrastructure being what it was back then, it took another two whole years for news of this liberation to reach far-flung outposts like Galveston, Texas on June 19th, 1865.
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Happy Bloomsday! Apparently this is a national observance in Dublin, Ireland commemorating novelist James Joyce's first seggsual encounter with his muse (and eventual wife) Nora Barnacle. Weird!