It was so cold. And she was so tired, struggling with the snow, with the stroller in the snow, getting in and out of the house was a trying procedure by itself with all the layers of clothes, and snow pants and gloves and shoes and the bright carpets mustn’t be stepped upon with the wet boots and she left the hat in the other room and had to take off her boots and enter the house again to look for it and doubted that she will ever be able to leave the house.
But that day the sun was shining, and Daniel spoke with the children at the nursery for the first time, asking, “Do you want to play with me?” and played with them in the snow, in the sun. And for the first time she thought: “maybe I can live here, in this cold city, after all”.
The sun was shining and she felt her tired limbs melting, just like the ice on the rooftops.
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