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Sure, summer 2021 is momentous because the CDC dropped mask requirements for vaccinated Americans, but also it's when the brood X cicada returned in parts of the US after 17 years! In Baltimore, we're cicada crazy but my mother-in-law has a cicada story of her own to share.