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By Bethany Payne
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He leaned over her and double-checked her scarf. “Yep,” he replied. It would have been a lot quicker if she would have kept still a little more. Well, it was her first snow. Lydia was already bouncing from boot to boot to go outside. She was never one for patience, but he was their big brother. Until he said they were ready, they weren’t going anywhere.
“Come on,” Lydia whined.
“Almost ready,” he responded. Nicki had managed to unbutton her coat somehow. He had already spent ten minutes in the hallway trying to get them ready. Somehow a five-year-old and a seven-year-old were more of a handful than he would have thought. Oh, well, at least none of the kids at school were there to laugh at him.
“Finally, there, we’re ready,” he said with satisfaction to Nicki’s bottom button.
“Finally! Finally! Yay!” Lydia was really bouncing now that Joseph was unlocking the front door. He pulled the door open and his two sisters flew out in front of him. He just smiled to himself and followed them.
Nicki just stood there staring at the falling flakes. Lydia was launching into the deepest drifts. Joseph walked up next to Nicki. “So, what do you think?”
She just watched the snow for a moment, ignoring her sister’s war calls. He flicked a crystal off of her muff hat.
“You know what?” Nicki’s voice piped up. “Mommy says that each snowflake is different.”
Joseph just nodded.
“She says it’s like how God made us, each one yooneek’.”
He smiled at her words. Then he stuck out his tongue to catch some snow in his mouth. He noticed that she was copying him. He remembered how the kids at school had teased him for doing that. They had different definitions of what “cool” was. Standing here, suddenly it didn’t matter anymore.
Lydia threw a snowball at their tree. A branch above her dumped snow back, and she howled.
“Know what?” Nicki was studying a melting crystal on her mitten. “I believe her.”
Joseph drew her close. “So do I.”
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