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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Delightful
story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The title is
really good. <o:p></o:p></font></font></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The main thrust of
the piece is how 2 well seasoned adults get to experience snow as though they
were children seeing it for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The story also
tells a lot about the lives of the protagonists as they relate to the
experience of snow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></font></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Colorado</u></b></st1:state></st1:place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u> is also described relevant to the
story. Well done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></u></b></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">I enjoyed the
experience.<o:p></o:p></font></font></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Seeing
Snow for the First Time<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Marcia
J. Wick, The Write Sisters<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">June
2019<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Word
Count: 564<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">A
blizzard in late spring is not that unusual where we live - 6,000 feet above
sea level in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. This year, winter had been
mostly moderate with sunshine and light snowfall, until March when spring
roared in like a lion. Doplar radar watchers warned that a “cyclone bomb” was
headed our way from the west coast where it had caused dangerous flooding.
Schools, government offices, and employers announced closures the night before
the anticipated storm, even though skies were blue and temperatures were still
in the 50s.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Forecasting
the weather in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Colorado</st1:place></st1:state></font><font size="3">
is no simple feat. “If you don’t like the weather, just wait 10 minutes and it
will change,” locals are fond of saying. Early prediction of the unusual
cyclone bomb, however, proved accurate. In the morning, we were slammed with
high winds, freezing rain, drifting snow, and white-out conditions.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">In
April, when weather prognosticators warned of another spring blizzard, the city
hunkered down again. Cancellations and early dismissals were called early
in the morning although the sun was shining, temperatures were in the 60s, and
the roads were clear. I hurried to my father’s house, throwing a change of
clothes at the last minute into my back pack, unsure if I’d get stranded once
there and be forced to spend the night.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Halfway
through the day, the ominous forecast still waited in the wings as the audience
grew restless for its appearance. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></font><font size="3">love these 2 lines.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Settling
opposite my dad at the table, me with my lunch and him with his breakfast, He
flipped the pages of the newspaper, his favorite preoccupation, and happens
upon the blizzard warning.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">“Rain
and snow, temperatures dropping into the 20s,” he glanced out the window,
perplexed at the sunny scene.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">At
2:00, still under sunny skies, Dad’s caregiver departed to pick up her sister
who was being released early from work to “beat the storm.” I thought
perhaps this time the weather gurus might have gotten it wrong. Settling
Dad into his easy chair for some late afternoon television, I glanced out the
living room window as the clouds burst. Fat raindrops transformed into fluffy
snowflakes mid-flight, turning the springtime scene into an avalanche of
winter. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">“Look
at that! What is that?” my Dad asked.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">“It’s
snowing after all,” I said, amazed myself at the sudden turn in seasons.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Dad
gaped at the falling flakes, as if seeing snow for the first time in his
94-year-long life. No stranger to snow, my father skied the powder slopes of <st1:state w:st="on">Colorado</st1:state></font><font size="3"> for six decades, climbed more than 30 mountains
above 14,000 feet where snow remained year round, camped in winter snow caves,
and climbed </font><st1:place w:st="on"><font size="3">Pikes Peak</font></st1:place><font size="3"> in a blizzard on New
Year’s Eve to help shoot off fireworks from the summit. Still, my slow-moving
father jumped out of his chair like a four-year-old boy seeing snow for the
first time.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">“Look
at it, look at it! It’s everywhere, all around,” he twisted his bald head back
and forth as I fought to catch his flailing arms into his coat sleeves.
Coatless myself, I chased Dad out the door onto the deck where he continued to
stare at the scene. As if the clouds were having a pillow fight, the sky was
flooded with white balls of cotton.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="yiv4060044681msonormal" style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Giggling
like a four-year-old girl, I stuck out my tongue as if tasting snow for the
first time, too.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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