Amy resumed breathing. “Did anyone tell you why?”
Barb threw up her hands. “The usual B.S. about people using their air conditioning too much. God, it’s in the eighties, in November. What do they expect?”
A strong gust of air reminded Amy why she still had her windbreaker on. The apartment complex was near the edge of the city, where the wind had plenty of open space to accelerate after passing over the nearby mountains.
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