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MOVING DAY ; Logjams of U-Hauls and furniture announce a yearly rite of passage in student neighborhoods

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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