When I would walk outside on a winter's day in Fairbanks, a mere 125 miles from the Arctic Circle, I would divert my breath up to my eyes (the only exposed area of my body) to keep them from freezing shut.

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Last winter, she went snow shoeing with classmates for the first time and she completed a 7-mile walk-run with her family last May.

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