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" South Africa has Namaqualand daisies, which mark spring with a blast of flowers that paints miles of its usually arid western coast Christina Hendricks orange. It&amp;#039;s probably amazing.  Us? We have Opening Day. And it has nothing to do with baseball. Halter tops, skirts, a bloom of shoulders bared to the sun \u2014 you know the day by its hormonal jolt. That long-awaited time when women reintroduce their winter-hidden skin to the appreciative world around them. When you get a glimpse of clavicle. When you get a glimpse of hope.  We consulted meteorologists, factored in U.S. population densities and a mounting impatience for anything later, and determined quite some time ago that this year&amp;#039;s Opening Day will fall on April 25. Make your plans accordingly. RELATED LINKS: EARLIER: Legs, as Reinvented by Michael Kors&amp;#039;s New Slit Skirts WOMEN: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and Were Not Afraid to Ask GALLERIES: Hundreds of Photos of Famous Women We Love COMING MONDAY: A Video Preview of the Woman of Summer 2009 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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