The Second Sister (2015)
“In another hour it would be dark, and when the assembled onlookers finished singing “O Tannenbaum,” mumbling through the verses, but jumping in and singing lustily along with the chorus, and the mayor pushed the button to illuminate the thirty-foot-tall Christmas tree, making the five score strings of lights glow white-gold in the darkness, everyone would gasp and then applaud, as though they’d never seen an electric lightbulb before.
But you can’t really blame them. On a cold December night when the setting of the sun causes the temperature to drop twenty degrees in as many minutes and turns your fingers into ice pops even through your gloves, there really is something miraculous, and hugely comforting, about the existence of electricity.
The police had closed five blocks along Bayshore to traffic the night before, giving the ice sculptors a spot to work on their creations through the night and leaving plenty of room for pedestrians to admire the completed sculptures the next day.
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