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March 2nd, 2015 at 03:51
Takes me back to when I was 7 years old when we were there for a year. One July 4th I saw the most amazing firework display up against the Washington Memorial with the fireworks reflecting off the pools in front of it :-) It was warmer then by the looks of things…