Another last snow of the season showed up today. I left work early to get AJ off the bus because my sister was stuck on the highway behind a nine-car pileup. My parents don’t drive in the snow.

     “The house is a mess,” my sister told me. “Tell the boys to play outside. AJ has plenty of extra gear.”

     “Boys?”

     “Playdate,” she said. “This was supposed to be a dusting, not a storm.”

     The boys, of course, did not want to play outside.

     “It’s too cold,” AJ said.

     “I came over to play Xbox,” said his friend.

     I didn’t like the kid.

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