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Season of dread, white and blues.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

| March 02, 2003 | Graham, Kristen A. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Kristen A. Graham

PHILADELPHIA _ Forget April.

For many parents, teachers and students, February and its slightly less nasty relative, March, are the cruelest months.

The snow. The winds. The short stretches of sunlight. The long, stark break between school holidays.

Bluntly said: It stinks, according to a multitude of teachers and students, including Jill Ottaviani, bummed-out senior at Sun Valley High School.

"Who wants to get out of bed in the morning?" asked Jill, 17, who is slogging through the season in the Penn-Delco School District in Aston, Pa. "It's that whole seasonal depression thing. No Vitamin D, you know?"

Exactly. Experts say the winter blues seem to peak at this time of year, when the holidays are long gone and it feels as if spring is still a million ...

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