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A Snowball’s Chance

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Monday, 31 Dec, 1986 - Holiday break with wet snow blanketing the ground as the kids head to their Pierson Salvage hangout to chat about their best Christmas gift. Ace (Whitney): maybe someday his parents would offer presents Ace actually liked. But once again he found a dozen gifts under the tree that would please the heart of any other kid (just not Ace). It was his housemaid Patsy who gave him the KISS poster personally signed by non-other than Gene Simmons himself! Eric (Mike): with darkness coming sooner in winter, his mom got him a very practical gift- a headlight for his paper-route bike. SO strong it could blind a person on the street. For his November 13 th birthday, as a new teen, his grandfather gifted him the time-honored native custom of spending an hour in a sweat lodge. Ein (Joey): he got the standard box of socks from his grandmother, but it was mom who got him the fancy new Nintendo Gameboy! Ein spent the res...