QUOTE : My eyes smarted with the cold . I held my free hand out, palm up, and watched as snow dissolved on my skin. This was not real life. This was life as watched through a window. Life watched on television. I couldn’t remember when I hadn’t hidden from this. I was cold, I had a handful of snow, and I was human. The future stretched before me, infinite and growing and mine, in a way that nothing had ever been before. Sudden euphoria rushed through me, a grin stretching my face at this cosmic lottery I had won. I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was, of the world and in it.