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MOVING DAY ; Logjams of U-Hauls and furniture announce a yearly rite of passage in student neighborhoods
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The Boston Globe
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September 2, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright 2008 The Boston Globe. (Hide copyright information)
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As a gentle breeze rustled through the leaves, Doug Bean and his
son Philip reclined under a towering oak tree, their eyes fixed on
the boughs and light-blue sky above. It was a sublime late-summer
morning that held a hint of fall, and for just a moment, the Beans
could have been whiling away the holiday in their backyard in Maine.
But then reality, in deafening, nerve-fraying doses, crashed
down. The low grind of moving vans' gears, the stomp of feet up and
down metal ramps. Groans from back-breaking exertion, curses from
movers as they hauled 7-foot couches up three flights of narrow
stairs. Above all, the endless cacophony of car horns.
It was moving day in Boston, and the Beans were at ...
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