Dear Diary:
I was walking down Broadway in yet another snowstorm last month when I saw an elderly woman, bundled up but oh-so-fragile, inching her way along the icy sidewalk with the help of two canes.
I would have helped her, but I didn’t know how I could. I was thinking how difficult this winter had been for all of us and imagining that a woman who ventures out into the snow with two canes must find it all but unendurable.
She stopped â€" to catch her balance? Nope. She was using one of her canes to draw a heart in a patch of freshly fallen snow.
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