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Between Winters
It rained on Christmas Eve.
And on Christmas Day.
Rain. At 9,318 feet.
In my twenty years of living here, I don’t know that I’ve ever experienced that. Snow, yes. Cold, definitely. But rain—on Christmas—felt unsettling in a way I couldn’t quite name.