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By Debra-Lynn B. Hook, The Orange County Register March 16, 2010

I know when the snow melts and the first robins come to call, when the spring peepers begin to sing from their mud puddles and the laughter of children returns to the parks and playgrounds, something wonderful is about to happen.

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