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The carnival is almost over. For Catholics worldwide, these are the last days to have fun and eat well before Lent – the 40-day period (not counting the Sundays) of fasting leading up to Easter. In Poland, quite adequately, Lent coincides with early spring, the gloomiest of Polish climate's six seasons.<ref>The six traditional (that is, pre-global-climate-change) Polish seasons are: ''zima'' (winter), ''przedwiośnie'' (early spring), ''wiosna'' (spring), ''lato'' (summer), ''złota jesień'' (golden autumn) and ''szaruga jesienna'' (gray autumn). Or, in the words of a poet:

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