I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.
![I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little -](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/susan-orlean/i-remember-three--and-four-week-long-snow-days-and-drifts-so-deep-a-small-child-namely-me-could.jpg)