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"She remembered Nana saying once each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up to the sky , gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us."