It has snowed on Caroline’s birthday every year. Yet yesterday the skies were clear and blue save for a few clouds, and weather predictions put any chance of precipitation at, at most, ten percent. Same prediction for today as well.
And Caroline, who apparently wanted to keep her streak intact, said, “I want it to snow. I want it to snow. Snow. I want snow.” She said it over and over and over again. I’d tell her to stop because it was getting on my nerves, and she would be quiet for a time, and then later she would start the snow chant again.
And during the day, thicker and thicker clouds came rolling in, and the sky went from blue to slate gray.
By 10 PM it was snowing.
As of this morning we’re having flurries.
Be afraid.
PAD
Originally published May 27, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1071
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