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The sunny days of spring are like will-o'-the-wisp, which tricks people. Innumerable are the stormy days and all the desperate, sleepless nights that the human heart can forget on one sunny day in springtime - but then the stormy days return, even worse than last year, yes, so bad that the oldest folk cannot remember anything like them, and then the desperate, sleepless nights, more desperate than ever before.