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"Imagine this: It&amp;#039;s 5:30 a.m. and there&amp;#039;s me, half-awake, dressed for work in my heels with my hair still wet, standing in front of the gas pump doing a happy dance. Yes, a happy dance. This weekend, when I was busy shuttling my kids to road races and sleepovers while trying to run my normal errands, I noticed that the gas prices in my town had crept up again to $4.05 per gallon since Friday, when it was $3.99. I think that I actually got teary. With my budget already at bare bones, I kept thinking, &amp;quot;What else can I cut?&amp;quot; It was already bad enough that food costs at the grocery store seemed to shoot up overnight (I had just left the grocery store where I paid an additional $50 for the same food that I got last time I went. I think my eyes actually popped out of my head when I saw the price per pound of vegetables and meat). Then a small miracle must&amp;#039;ve come rolling into town in the middle of the night: The price of gas went down.Yes, it went down. When I pulled into the gas station this morning to fill up, gas was back down to $3.99. I was shocked\u2014and happy enough to do a little dance right there, outside, in public. I looked around thinking that surely this was a joke; I hadn&amp;#039;t seen anything like this happen in at least what, a year? The construction workers that were there for their morning fill-ups (the only other people crazy enough to work in an industry that requires you to get up that early) looked at me kind of strangely. I think one actually gave me a little leery smile. I didn&amp;#039;t mind. That small six-cent decrease gave me something that I haven&amp;#039;t had in a very long time: Hope. Hope that maybe this little gas crisis does have an end in sight. Or even hope that this is the eye of the storm bringing a little temporary relief to our wallets before we have to start cutting out everything else in our lives just to get back and forth to work. Whatever it is, I&amp;#039;ll take the respite. Have you seen any relief in gas prices in your area? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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