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Walking on Thin Ice

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  It was a bright, crisp morning in January.  I opened my eyes to a winter wonderland.  The sound of sleigh bells echoed in the air, and laughing people skied past my window drinking hot chocolate and pelting each other with marshmallows.  But this illusion was faint and transitory.  (I read that sentence in a book and have been dying to use it somewhere.)  It WAS snowing, though, and that meant one thing for certain - it would freeze overnight and tomorrow I'd have to deal with ICE!  (Insert dramatic music here.) I realized I was now faced with the prospect of once again demonstrating my complete inability to cross the street without having an end-of-life- experience whilst simultaneously screaming at innocent passersby to either help me or get out of the way.  Arming myself against the vicious eastern winds proved not to be a problem, as I merely wore so many layers of clothing that I looked like I was about to be launched into deep space. ...