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Summer of Cigars 2022: Sunday, September 4 (Labor Day Weekend)

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Sunday, September 4, 2022 Dale and I went to the State Fair this morning. This afternoon I smoked a little Romeo y Julieta in the backyard after lighting up in the garage. While smoking I continued to reminisce about the summer of 1982 which is when I began to indulge my cigar obsession.  The appeal lay in how completely masculine it was to me. 

Summer of Cigars 2022: Saturday, September 3 (Labor Day Weekend)

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Saturday, September 3, 2022 Labor Day Weekend is here. School starts next week. As always it all went too fast.  I think of that first summer of cigars in 1982. Walking up to Salk Drug Store on Lyndale Avenue to buy Swisher Sweats and Dots. My cigar intake was much more sporadic and infrequent back in 1982. I would go for months and sometimes a few years.  Lighting up became a little more frequent once I moved out on my own. I'd sometime walk up to Golden Leaf in Calhoun Square for a cigar and then drive around smoking it in my Toyota Corolla. I liked how the car smelled the next day.  There's a bunch of other stuff I remember about the summer of 1982: the above album; Twilight Zone the movie seen with Mom, Dad, Sam, and Pete at the France Avenue Drive-In; my bicycle accident and the hospital stay that resulted from it; watching Brideshead Revisited on PBS; staying up late because I couldn't sleep or because I would sneak one of Dad's Swisher Sweets; watching NBC Overni