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Jan = new Array
Jana = new Array
Jan[1] = "The gardening season officially begins on January 1st and ends on December 31."
Jana[1] = "- Marie Huston"
Jan[2] = "A man of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds."
Jana[2] = "- nursery rhyme"
Jan[3] = "Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irespective of size or wealth."
Jana[3] = "- Vita Sackville-West"
Jan[4] = "In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."
Jana[4] = "- Abram L. Urban"
Jan[5] = "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Jana[5] = "- Albert Einstein"
Jan[6] = "The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession."
Jana[6] = "- Phyllis McGinley"
Jan[7] = "An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up."
Jana[7] = "- Leslie Hall"
Jan[8] = "There is something noble and pure in a taste for the beauty of vegetation."
Jana[8] = "- Minshall Painter"
Jan[9] = "Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas."
Jana[9] = "- Elizabeth Murray"
Jan[10] = "Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life."
Jana[10] = "- Professor Search"
Jan[11] = "He who plants a garden, plants happiness."
Jana[11] = "- Chinese proverb"
Jan[12] = "Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage."
Jana[12] = "- author unknown"
Jan[13] = "There is life in the ground: When it is stirred up, it goes into the man who stirs it."
Jana[13] = "- author unknown"
Jan[14] = "He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul."
Jana[14] = "- Celia Thaxter"
Jan[15] = "The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."
Jana[15] = "- Hanna Rion"
Jan[16] = "The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies."
Jana[16] = "- Gertrude Jekyll"
Jan[17] = "The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and foster its renewal, is our only hope ..."
Jana[17] = "- Wendell Berry"
Jan[18] = "How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence."
Jana[18] = "- Benjamin Disraeli"
Jan[19] = "You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt."
Jana[19] = "- author unknown"
Jan[20] = "No two gardens are the same.  No two days are the same in one garden."
Jana[20] = "- Hugh Johnson"
Jan[21] = "Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise."
Jana[21] = "- Michael P. Garafalo"
Jan[22] = "One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides."
Jana[22] = "- W.E. Johns, The Passing Show"
Jan[23] = "It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not."
Jana[23] = "- W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, Garden Rubbish, 1936"
Jan[24] = "One kind word can warm three winter months."
Jana[24] = "- Japanese Proverb"
Jan[25] = "To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life...this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do."
Jana[25] = "- Charles Dudley Warner"
Jan[26] = "Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof."
Jana[26] = "- Celia Thaxter"
Jan[27] = "Where does the white go when the snow melts?"
Jana[27] = ""
Jan[28] = "When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands."
Jana[28] = "- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Jan[29] = "We had better find a way to grow things in asphalt before we cover the world with it."
Jana[29] = "- Rodger B. Swain"
Jan[30] = "How pleasant the lives of the birds must be, living in love in a leafy tree."
Jana[30] = "- Mary Howitt"
Jan[31] = "Each spring... a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground."
Jana[31] = "- Lewis Gantt"

Feb = new Array
Feba = new Array
Feb[1] = "In successive censuses gardeners are continuously found at the head of the tables of longevity."
Feba[1] = "- William Beach Thomas"
Feb[2] = "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
Feba[2] = "- Marcus Tullius Cicero"
Feb[3] = "Increasing diversity is the rule of the universe. No two human beings, animals, insects or plants will ever be exactly the same in the entire universe and stream of time. Yet all atoms, cells, insects, plants, animals and human beings are parts of vast families of basically similar structures, characteristics and functions. Unity in diversity must be the central rule of a planetary society if we do not wish to run counter to biological evolution."
Feba[3] = "Robert Muller"
Feb[4] = "Everything in life is speaking, is audible, is communicating, in spite of its apparent silence."
Feba[4] = "- Hazrat Inayat Khan"
Feb[5] = "Re-earthing is the process of re-connecting ourselves with the earth. Practically, we learn to nurture the soil & grow the things we need; psychologically we become 'grounded'and more balanced as we develop our awareness of how the earth under our feet supports & connects us; emotionally we gain a sense of well-being, when we connect with it as our home; intellectually we learn more about it at every opportunity; metaphysically we honour it as one of the four elements; & on the spiritual plane, we learn to respect & reverence the Earth, as a manifestation, or, if you so believe, the divine creation, of life energy, whose evolutionary history from the beginning of the universe all beings share."
Feba[5] = "- Re-earthing the Cities"
Feb[6] = "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
Feba[6] = "- James Oppenheim"
Feb[7] = "Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life. The simple act of stopping and looking at the beauty around us can be prayer."
Feba[7] = "- Patricia R. Barrett, The Sacred Garden"
Feb[8] = "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
Feba[8] = "- Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
Feb[9] = "Consider that the word ecology comes from the Greek word for 'home' (eikos).  An ecological awakening is an awakening about our true home."
Feba[9] = "- Matthew Fox"
Feb[10] = "Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is."
Feba[10] = "- Blaise Pascal"
Feb[11] = "We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home." 
Feba[11] = "- Aborigine philosophy"
Feb[12] = "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Feba[12] = "- Francis Bacon"
Feb[13] = "This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it."
Feba[13] = "- Scott Carpenter, astronaut"
Feb[14] = "All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Wharever befalls the Earth befalls the sons and daughters of the Earth."
Feba[14] = "- Chief Seattle"
Feb[15] = "There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet."
Feba[15] = "- Brooke Medicine Eagle"
Feb[16] = "Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself."
Feba[16] = "- Rachel Carson"
Feb[17] = "Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them."
Feba[17] = "- John Ruskin"
Feb[18] = "Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains."
Feba[18] = "- Author unknown"
Feb[19] = "The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."
Feba[19] = "- Tennessee Williams"
Feb[20] = "To make a wish come true, whisper it to a butterfly. Upon these wings it will be taken to heaven and granted. For they are the messengers of the Great Spirit."
Feba[20] = "- Native American Legend"
Feb[21] = "For the first time in human history, humans are changing substantially the Earth, its ozonosphere, atmosphere, its waters, its biosphere, its soils, its vegetal cover, its climate, its ocean currents, and are responsible for the extinction every five hours of a species which it took millions of years to form. This situation requires an entirely new thinking, new values, new objectives, new preventions, new behaviors, new healings and new institutions.  It also requires for the first time a sense of urgency."
Feba[21] = "- Robert Muller"
Feb[22] = "We must say yes to life, always, unreservedly and joyfully."
Feba[22] = "- Robert Muller"
Feb[23] = "To live happily, that is the success of life."
Feba[23] = "- Robert Muller"
Feb[24] = "A soil is not a pile of dirt. It is a transformer, a body that organises raw materials into tissues. These are the tissues that become the mother to all organic life."
Feba[24] = "-  William Bryant Logan"
Feb[25] = "At every time of one's life, in every circumstance, there is a certain form of happiness. The art of living consists in seeking out these special moments!"
Feba[25] = "- Robert Muller"
Feb[26] = "I wish the world would cover itself again with fruit trees for the happiness of little children. Every child on Earth should have the pleasure of touching and picking live fruits from a tree."
Feba[26] = "- Robert Muller"
Feb[27] = "The countries of this world should not be judged by their power, their arms, and their wealth, but by the happiness of their people."
Feba[27] = "- Robert Muller"
Feb[28] = "If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?"
Feba[28] = "- G.K. Chesterton"
Feb[29] = "Everything in life is speaking, is audible, is communicating, in spite of its apparent silence."
Feba[29] = "- Hazrat Inayat Khan"

Mar = new Array
Mara = new Array
Mar[1] = "He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul."
Mara[1] = "- Celia Thaxter"
Mar[2] = "In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet."
Mara[2] = "- Albert Schweitzer"
Mar[3] = "Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle."
Mara[3] = "- Edgar Quinet"
Mar[4] = "All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today."
Mara[4] = "- Indian Proverb"
Mar[5] = "Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life."
Mara[5] = "- R. Search"
Mar[6] = "Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds."
Mara[6] = "- Bhagwan Shree Rayneesh"
Mar[7] = "Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants."
Mara[7] = "- Dorothy Parker"
Mar[8] = "There is more pleasure in making a garden than in contemplating a paradise."
Mara[8] = "- Anne Scott-James"
Mar[9] = "Sitting quiet, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself"
Mara[9] = "- Zen saying"
Mar[10] = "If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, and of thy meager store two loaves alone to thee are left, sell one, and with the dole buy hyacinths to feed thy soul."
Mara[10] = "- Sheikh Muslih-uddin Saadi Shirazi"
Mar[11] = "Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace."
Mara[11] = "- Author unknown"
Mar[12] = " It is only when you start a garden that you realize something important happens every day."
Mara[12] = "- Geoffrey B. Charlesworth"
Mar[13] = "A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies,  Let the rich life run to the roots again."
Mara[13] = "- Robinson Jeffers"
Mar[14] = "Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds, the harvest can be either flowers or weeds."
Mara[14] = "- Author unknown "
Mar[15] = "A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us...   What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds.  We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of the earth, but also the earth's ability to produce."
Mara[15] = "- Wendell Berry"
Mar[16] = "There are points of time, of distant memory, when the soul unites within the pattern of the universe.  That union brings forth the understanding of life's harmony. So it should be within the garden ..."
Mara[16] = "- Author unknown"
Mar[17] = "Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one."
Mara[17] = "- Dave Barry"
Mar[18] = "Gardens are not created or made, they unfold, spiraling open like the silk petals of an evening primrose flower to reveal the ground plot of the mind and heart of the gardener and the good earth."
Mara[18] = "- Wendy Johnson"
Mar[19] = "Re-earthing is the process of re-connecting ourselves with the earth. Practically, we learn to nurture the soil and grow the things we need; psychologically we become 'grounded' and more balanced as we develop our awareness of how the earth under our feet supports and connects us; emotionally we gain a sense of well-being, when we connect with it as our home; intellectually we learn more about it at every opportunity; metaphysically we honour it as one of the four elements; and, on the spiritual plane, we learn to respect and reverence the Earth, as a manifestation, or, if you so believe, the divine creation, of life energy, whose evolutionary history from the beginning of the universe all beings share."
Mara[19] = "- Re-Earthing the Cities"
Mar[20] = "The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature."
Mara[20] = "- Alfred Austin"
Mar[21] = "The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."
Mara[21] = "- Henry Van Dyke"
Mar[22] = "Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl.  And the anticipation nurtures our dream."
Mara[22] = "- Barbara Winkler"
Mar[23] = "Nature teaches quiet lessons to the gardener who chooses to live within the paradigm of the garden." 
Mara[23] = "- Norman H. Hansen"
Mar[24] = "Gardens have the potential to satisfy nine basic human needs: subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, participation, leisure, creation, identity and freedom, across four existential states: being, having, doing and interacting."
Mara[24] = "- Mike Steven"
Mar[25] = "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
Mara[25] = "- Mohandas K. Gandhi"
Mar[26] = "Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries of the universe."
Mara[26] = "- Thomas Berry"
Mar[27] = "Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
Mara[27] = "- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "
Mar[28] = "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
Mara[28] = "- Rachel Carson"
Mar[29] = "There is a symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring."
Mara[29] = "- Rachel Carson"
Mar[30] = "There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter."
Mara[30] = "- Rachel Carson"
Mar[31] = "The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life."
Mara[31] = "- Rachel Carson"

Apr = new Array
Apra = new Array
Apr[1] = "Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders."
Apra[1] = "- Henry David Thoreau"
Apr[2] = "What is a weed?  A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Apra[2] = "- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Apr[3] = "There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp."
Apra[3] = "- John Steinbeck"
Apr[4] = "Spade! ...Thou art a tool of honor in my hands; I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride."
Apra[4] = "William Wordsworth"
Apr[5] = "Where flowers bloom so does hope."
Apra[5] = "- Lady Bird Johnson"
Apr[6] = "Each flower is a soul opening out to nature." 
Apra[6] = "- Gerald De Nerval"
Apr[7] = "I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth."
Apra[7] = "- Marion Cran"
Apr[8] = "Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought..."
Apra[8] = "- Sophie Scholl"
Apr[9] = "I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He lives buried in the ground.  He builds his monument in a heap of compost.  If he came into the Garden of Eden, he would sniff excitedly and say: 'Good Lord, what a humus!'"
Apra[9] = "- Karel Capek"
Apr[10] = "In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
Apra[10] = "- Margaret Atwood"
Apr[11] = "All my hurts my garden spade can heal."
Apra[11] = "- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Apr[12] = "To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul."
Apra[12] = "- Alfred Austin"
Apr[13] = "There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."
Apra[13] = "- Linda Hogan"
Apr[14] = "The garden should be adorned with roses and lilies, the turnsole, violets, and mandrake;  there you should have parsley, cost, fennel, southern-wood, coriander, sage, savory, hyssop, mint, rue, dittany, smallage, pellitory, lettuces, garden-cress, and peonies.  There should also be beds planted with onions, leeks, garlic, pumpkins and shallots.  The cucumber growing in its lap, the drowsy poppy, the daffodil and brank-ursine ennoble a garden.  Nor are there wanting, if occasion further thee, pottage-herbs: beets, herb-mercury, orache, sorrel and mallows, anise, mustard, white pepper and wormwood do good service to the gardener."
Apra[14] = "- Alexander of Neckham, Of the Nature of Things, 1187"
Apr[15] = "Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy."
Apra[15] = "- Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
Apr[16] = "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
Apra[16] = "- Mahatma Gandhi"
Apr[17] = "I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school.  It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life."
Apra[17] = "- A. L. Rowse"
Apr[18] = "Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners."
Apra[18] = "- William Shakespeare"
Apr[19] = "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Apra[19] = "- Anais Nin"
Apr[20] = "The air is like a butterfly with frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky and sings."
Apra[20] = "- Joyce Kilmer, Spring"
Apr[21] = "If not ignored, nature will cultivate in the gardener a sense of well-being and peace.  The gardener may find deeper meaning in life by paying attention to the parables of the garden."
Apra[21] = "- Norman H. Hansen"
Apr[22] = "Sweet April showers do spring May flowers."
Apra[22] = "- Thomas Tusser"
Apr[23] = "Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself." 
Apra[23] = "- The Gospel According To Zen"
Apr[24] = "Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all."
Apra[24] = "- Katherine Whitehorn"
Apr[25] = "I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils."
Apra[25] = "- William Wordsworth"
Apr[26] = "No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow."
Apra[26] = "- Proverb from Guinea"
Apr[27] = "In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone."
Apra[27] = "- Lafcadio Hearn"
Apr[28] = "Now every field, now every tree is green and friendly nature's fairest face is seen."
Apra[28] = "- Virgil"
Apr[29] = "When I have the time to take a walk, I would often take the time to admire the grass. ... I think a virtuous man should be like grass. Humble, unnoticed, yet possessing great strength and kindness."
Apra[29] = "- Tan Chade Meng"
Apr[30] = "The old tree is shook  White blossoms slowly float down  Dancers in the wind"
Apra[30] = "- Alexandra Kim"

May = new Array
Maya = new Array
May[1] = "A delicate fabric of bird song floats in the air, the smell of wet wild earth is everywhere. Oh, I must pass nothing by without loving it much, the raindrop try with my lips, the grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again the world on the first of May shining after the rain?"
Maya[1] = "- Sara Teasdale, May Day"
May[2] = "Comes the spring with its warmth and flowers delight, then the weeds poke out their ugly head, what a nightmarish site. I pull, I scream, they reappear. My husband says 'Didn't we just do this last year, dear?' My endless battle, it seems, I'm doomed not to win. Is shooting your weeds considered a sin?"
Maya[2] = "- Christine Blanksvard"
May[3] = "Flowers bring to a liberall and gentlemanly minde the remembrance of honestie, comelinesse and all kindes of virtues."
Maya[3] = "- John Gerard"
May[4] = "Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to.  But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough.  Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them."
Maya[4] = "- Victoria Glendinning"
May[5] = "Yes, I will spend the livelong day with Nature in this month of May; And sit beneath the trees, and share my bread with birds whose homes are there; While cows lie down to eat, and sheep stand to their necks in grass so deep; while birds do sing with all their might, as though they felt the earth in flight."
Maya[5] = "- William Henry Davies, In May"

Jun = new Array
Juna = new Array
Jun[1] = ""
Juna[1] = ""

Jul = new Array
Jula = new Array
Jul[1] = ""
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Aug = new Array
Auga = new Array
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Sep = new Array
Sepa = new Array
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Oct = new Array
Octa = new Array
Oct[1] = ""
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Nov = new Array
Nova = new Array
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Dec = new Array
Deca = new Array
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Dec[30] = "From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye."
Deca[30] = "- Katherine S. White"
Dec[31] = "The gardening season officially begins on January 1st and ends on December 31."
Deca[31] = "- Marie Huston"


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