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The Zamboni
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Read, Laugh, Repeat
By Michael Sullivan My other car is a Zamboni.
~Hockey Saying By the middle of December the small pond in back of our home was starting to freeze, the first fragile layers of thin ice crusting on its surface. As soon as we saw those, my brother and I kept a constant vigil. We walked down to the water's edge each day after school, putting progressively more and more weight onto the ice until one of us — the braver, usually my brother — was able to tiptoe out a few feet, one arm grabbing tightly to a rope. Once there, he would jump up and down, pounding his boots into the ice, testing it. "It's a few inches, at least," he turned to me and said a week after the vigil had started. "Come out." (Keep reading) | 
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