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“Nothing like it had ever happened before. Even adults thought so, and the normal rules were forgotten. School was cancelled. My brother and I ran about outside, jumping and rolling in it until my shoes were soaked through and my hands ached with the cold. And when I came inside, it was on TV too. I sat on our couch and I watched what I had already seen. But at some point during all of this, I felt my breathing thicken, that cold air having an effect, and by afternoon I was struggling, wheezing loudly. I began to breathe in gulps, pushing my head up into the air like someone sinking beneath the water. None of this helped. I could take only one breath for every two I needed, and then for every three, for every four. I was losing.”
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