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I remember my wife referring to the hot, humid summer weather of August 1984 as "the miasma". She took our 6-month old daughter and decamped to my mother's air conditioned house in Delaware. I stayed home with the dogs and did my job as a sales manager for livestock nutritional products.

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Thanks, Don A. I honestly don’t know whether I’ve ever used the word in conversation but the definitions I found seemed to reinforce the sense of disturbance many people are feeling. One day at a time . . .

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