How I learned about snowflakes by Erin Michael

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How I learned about snowflakes

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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Snowflakes

and the story of how I learned what they are

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orange county, ca

When I was a child, I grew up in

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snow.

It was sunny all the time, and there was never

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out of paper,

In school, we would cut snowflakes

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to make it look snowy.

and my mom had little decals she stuck on the window

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and we would draw them in class.

We had snowflake Christmas tree ornaments,

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unique,

It was always explained to us that each snowflake is

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no two are the same.

like our fingerprints or a zebra's stripes:

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i knew they were beautiful,

So I grew up with this understanding of snowflakes...

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I knew they were intricate,

I knew they were delicate,

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i knew they were fist-sized.

And, having only seen the decals and ornaments and drawings,

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I thought they were like icicles - something you could hold.

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I THOUGHT WINTER WAS:

Snow
Snow
Snowflakes
Snowflakes
Icicles
Snow angels
Snow angels
Santa
Santa

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I only had one of those things.

Thanks, SoCal.

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New Jersey.

When I was 22, I spent my first winter in

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Looking at the snow clinging to me, I thought,

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tiny snowflakes."

"These little pieces of snow, up close, they look like

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"When do snowflakes start falling?"

I turned to my boyfriend at the time and asked,

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We stood there for a second.

He gave me a weird look. I gave him a weird look back.

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"These are snowflakes."

"What do you mean?" he asked.

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he gave me another weird look.

"Yeah," I said, "but I mean, like, SNOWFLAKES."

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...

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Then, my head pretty much exploded.

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"THESE ARE ALL DIFFERENT?!"

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"THESE ARE WHAT I MADE IN KINDERGARTEN?!

OUT OF PAPER???"

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seriously.

Talk about a winter wonderland.

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