Sometimes we act in ways we later regret. Imagine that you could go back intime and change the way you treated someone you love.

One winter there was a freezing rain. How beautiful! people said when things outside started toshine with ice. But the freezing rain kept coming. Tree branches glistened like glass. Then brokelike glass. Ice thickened on the windows until everything outside blurred. Farmers moved theirlivestock into the barns, and most animals were safe. But not the pheasants. Their eyes froze shut.