Not So Pretty Now
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In grad school I had a friend who emigrated from Cuba when she was a girl. She said the first night she arrived in New Jersey it snowed---the first time she had ever seen snow. And she thought it was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. Then the next day she woke up, and the cars had been through and the plows and shovels, and she thought it was the ugliest thing she'd ever seen.
In grad school I had a friend who emigrated from Cuba when she was a girl. She said the first night she arrived in New Jersey it snowed---the first time she had ever seen snow. And she thought it was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. Then the next day she woke up, and the cars had been through and the plows and shovels, and she thought it was the ugliest thing she'd ever seen.
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when my in-laws moved to chicago from sicily, they arrived in the dead of winter and just had little flimsy slip-on shoes and no real winter-weather gear. they were HORRIFIED and wondered what on earth they'd signed up for.
they chuckle mightily now whenever they think of that first winter. they're totally seasoned chicagoans now.
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