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Back Away and Back Again

I am in Syracuse visiting my parents and youngest brother. They are all on winter break at the moment and (bow howdy) we haven't seen a winter like this in a spell. I can't remember the last time I was able to completely submerge myself in the snow.

I was having fun the other day too -- making face prints in the snow -- when my mom saw.

The letters 'OMG!' appeared on her face and in the snow flakes in her hair. Then she smiled and told me I hadn't changed.

"???" I replied -- and she explained.

I don't remember this but apparently, when I was 5, I slinked away from a Tiger Cub meeting (a precursor to boy scouts) to play the exact same game. Only that time I was 5 and almost gave myself frostbite. Which, as a 5 year old, I thought was both scary and hilarious at the same time. Scary cause I hadn't realized before then that frost could bite, or had any teeth. Hilarious cause all that time I had been biting the snow.