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Halie was my first-year college roommate, born and raised in California; she had never seen snow. Oppositely, being born in Minnesota, I grew up hating all things cold: the wind, ice, snow, you name it. But, regardless of my pessimism, in our first winter together, we stood in the window watching small white specks flutter to the ground. "I can't believe there's snow, Lily!" "Yeah, and soon there'll be so much that the ground will be completely covered." "There's MORE snow