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Prompt #24 - Snow
Prompt #24 Write a prompt based around the theme of snow.

I used to hate snow. I mean really hate snow. Of course as a kid I loved it, what kid doesn’t? But when you’re a kid you don’t notice how cold it is and you don’t even care when you get hit by a snowball and your cheek gets all red and prickly feeling. If you’re really lucky a lot of snow means you get the day off school and you can play in the backyard making snowmen and trying to hit your sisters with a snowball. Snow is nothing but good stuff when you’re a kid, even when it makes you cold.

But then when you have to scrap the snow off the car to go to work in a morning, or fight your way though slow traffic when it’s snowing. When you have to clear snow off the oath or form the garage and when you have to go out in the freezing cold, then you stop liking snow so much.

When I went up to Canada that first time all there was snow. Okay so there trees and rocks but mostly it was just snow. I had to wear this crazy snowsuit, just to keep from freezing. It was deep snow too, I had to walk for miles through this deep, hard to walk through, snow, and I’d just got out of the hospital. And let’s not talk about how I leapt off a dogsled into freezing snow that got down my sweater.

So yeah me and snow? Not great friends. Until I saw how Benny liked snow. Yeah he likes it because to him it’s home. You can see him sometimes staring out at Chicago and you feel for the guy because it’s not home for him. But when it started snowing his eyes light up, you know? He’s in Chicago but if it’s snowing it’s like he has a little bit of Canada there with him. Yeah I see snow now I think it’s a bit of Canada come to visit Benny. I know it’s crazy but that’s how I feel. I’ll stand with Benny at the window and we’ll be there looking out at Canada and I’ll hug him because I’m home with him. Snow is home for me too. So I don’t hate it anymore. Sure, I still curse when I have to scrape it off the Riv but at least now I know there’s a reason for it being there. To remind me of Benny, Canada and home.