Light On Snow

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  • I
  • watched
  • my
  • father
  • run
  • forward
  • in
  • his
  • snowshoes
  • the
  • way
  • one
  • sometimes
  • does
  • in
  • dreams,
  • unable
  • to
  • make
  • the
  • legs
  • move
  • fast
  • enough.
  • I
  • ran
  • to
  • the
  • place
  • where
  • he
  • knelt.
  • I
  • looked
  • down
  • into
  • the
  • sleeping
  • bag.
  • A
  • tiny
  • face
  • gazed
  • up
  • at
  • me,
  • the
  • eyes
  • wide
  • despite
  • their
  • many
  • folds.
  • The
  • baby
  • was
  • wrapped
  • in
  • a
  • bloody
  • towel,
  • and
  • its
  • lips
  • were
  • blue.' The
  • events
  • of
  • a
  • December
  • afternoon
  • on
  • which
  • a
  • father
  • and
  • his
  • daughter
  • find
  • an
  • abandoned
  • infant
  • in
  • the
  • snow
  • will
  • forever
  • alter
  • eleven-year-old
  • Nicky
  • Dillon's
  • understanding
  • of
  • the
  • world
  • which
  • she
  • is
  • about
  • to
  • enter
  • and
  • the
  • adults
  • who
  • inhabit
  • it:
  • a
  • father
  • who
  • has
  • taken
  • great
  • pains
  • to
  • remove
  • himself
  • from
  • society
  • in
  • order
  • to
  • put
  • behind
  • him
  • an
  • unthinkable
  • tragedy;
  • a
  • young
  • woman
  • who
  • must
  • live
  • with
  • the
  • consequences
  • of
  • the
  • terrible
  • choices
  • she
  • has
  • made;
  • and
  • a
  • detective
  • whose
  • cleverness
  • is
  • superseded
  • only
  • by
  • his
  • sense
  • of
  • justice.
  • Written
  • from
  • the
  • point
  • of
  • view
  • of
  • thirty-year-old
  • Nicky
  • as
  • she
  • recalls
  • the
  • vivid
  • images
  • of
  • that
  • fateful
  • December,
  • hers
  • is
  • a
  • tale
  • of
  • love
  • and
  • courage,
  • of
  • tragedy
  • and
  • redemption,
  • and
  • of
  • the
  • ways
  • in
  • which
  • the
  • human
  • heart
  • always
  • seeks
  • to
  • heal itself.
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