Snowman

"What do you think is wrong with Mum?" asked Carly. There was no one else in the room with her. She was talking to the snowglobe resting on her bed. "She's been crying a lot, you know." Carly picked up the snowglobe and gave it a shake. She watched the myriad of small white pellets swirl around inside the dome, settling on the little model of a wooden cabin and the tiny figure of a man wrapped tightly in an overcoat, trapped and frozen in the hemisphere of glass. Her Daddy had bought the snowglobe for her. That's what the man who gave it to her had said. They found it in his car. She squinted to read the carefully painted sign on the little cabin. It read: 'SOS Souvenir Shop'. "What shall I do to make her happy again?" Carly asked the snowglobe. "Draw her a picture? That's a good idea."

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