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This is a very mixed-mode place, Texas. Seems to me it's getting hard to find a Texan here, and when I 'fess up to being a Northerner and kind of missing the seasons, including the snow, there are always a bunch of nods from the group du jour. This happens especially when I revel in the arrival of spring after a hard winter. It's no mistake that religious revival and redemption themes resonate through the spring calendar. (Sorry, south-of-the-equator folks --- somehow the north half got dibs on the maps.) Even Easter is, after all, based in agricultural lore -- namely, the renewal and "redemption" of spring.
The first time you see the northern lights, you're stunned at how very small you are, and how wondrous the universe. To have had warm winters all my life and never have had the experience of the borealis would have been an unthinkable trade-off.
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