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Cheryll Barron The seasons

Summer, 2012

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woolgathering

1553, “indulging in wandering fancies and purposeless thinking,” from the lit. meaning “gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.”

Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper

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