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Context: In the blue-white blizzard over the snow-covered hill, the young boy, against the wind, pulls tighter his brown trenchcoat…

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He wandered far...

...far from his familiar, unchanging home.

Walking on, yet undiscovered to him, to the city in the blizzard

The sparkling windows and lights inviting Tom happily

Smiling as he draws closer with widened eyes, the swirling snowflakes unseen front his grinning teeth

Exciting curiosity encouraging his hopeful determination

Entering the city in wonder, admiring the buildings, the horses, the streetlamps all around


0:35 And there Tom sees a boy, wondering just as he

Fell in the snow, the boy opens his flinched eyes to Tom's kind hand pulling him to stand

Playing together, running through the light-showered, snowy streets


1:04 "Come with me", the boy says to Tom's excited eyes

Running faster and faster, hands held tight, avoiding carriages and people alike

Past the roads and through the alleys and into the trees