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As the day goes by, she holds true to her promise: she helps Bonnie build a

snowman, then they destroy it; they engage in a snowball fight; they make

angels in the snow; she pushes the little girl in their sleigh. Occasionally,

after some quieter moments of contemplation, like a nervous tick, she

thinks, “I should tweet about this”, but then quickly pushes the thought

away.

And by the end of the day, as they are back inside their warm house, Eliza

is happy. She had never thought a whole day free from social medias and

her phone would be this good, but the truth is she feels deeply satisfied:

her head no longer hurts from staring at a screen for hours, and there’s a

feeling of fulfillment deep in her gut for it had been a long while since she

had last experienced something fully.

Of course, she knows she won’t be capable of living every day like this, as

the magnetizing media consumption and technology usage will always call

her, but she wants to spend more days like this one. She can’t even care if

what happened the night before was simply a nightmare, or actually real.

Rita Rosário, 11ºA, 29/3/2018