Ten reasons to live someplace with a real winter
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Summer is sweeter after you've gone through a real winter. You'll appreciate that warmth so much more when you realize it's fleeting.
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Cold weather affords more wardrobe choices than warm weather. I happen to think I look pretty good when sporting the layered look. And my favorite shirt is an orange fleece pullover. If it's not below 40 degrees outside, I'll break into a sweat just looking at that shirt.
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I like to wear hats. However, I do not like sweaty hat head. Therefore winter is also hat season.
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Sweater boobs. Aside from from bare and maybe bikinied, boobs look their best when they're straining a little against a sweater. Plus, sweater boobs are just as soft and fluffy as they look. Boobs + sweater = full-on booliciousness.
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Snuggling under blankets. "Come here, baby. It's cold. Come keep me warm." heh.
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The silence of everything. Falling snow muffles sound. If you've never experienced this, then you have no idea what I mean. But if you have experienced it, then you know how amazing it is. When snow falls, the city becomes silent and still. It gives me a sense of peace like nothing else.
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The beauty of everything. Cities are pretty damn dirty, and mine is no exception. All day and every day we create trash. We litter. Cigarette butts and gum wrappers go flying right out the car window. Our machines create grime and filth and oil stains everywhere. Every winter, Nature does her best to hide our vulgar mistakes by covering everything in a clean layer of pure white.
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Crisp air. If you've never been in the cold, you're going to think I'm crazy, but please just take my word for it. Winter air is different. It's dry, fresh, clean, and cold. Winter air "tastes" better. I swear, I can breathe deeper in the winter than in the summer.
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Spring skin. Sweater boobs are incredible, but after four or five months of covering every patch of exposed skin, I'm ready to see a little more. Women's spring fashions are like an advent calendar for summer. A little more clothing comes off everyday. I fell in love with Girlfriend when I watched her cross a parking lot in a sleeveless shirt on a warm March night.
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Bragging rights. Go through a -50 winter and you are immediately granted the authority to call "wimp" on anyone who hasn't.