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It was the middle of January, the year of 1999, and I was eight years old. Winter Vacation had arrived and I was on my break from school. My grandmother had called my father and asked if my brother and I would be interested in going snow tubing at Hunter Mountain, and I was so excited that I nearly peed my pants. The plans had been arranged and set for the following morning, so we went directly to bed with smiles on our faces.
The next morning when we all awoke, we ate breakfast immediately. I demolished my plate of blueberry pancakes with syrup because I was so anxious to get onto the hills. My grandmother stressed that it would be a chilly day outside, so she bundled me up in six layers. First a short sleeve shirt, then a long sleeved one, two sweatshirts, a windbreaker, and finally a Charlotte Hornets winter coat that she had purchased at a yard sale for me the summer before. After being shielded from sunlight with the several layers, she gave me a black, winter hat......

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