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Terrific!

Just the other day I told my present wife that I hate winter.

"Then go spend the winter in California," she said.

Great, she wants to get rid of me. I'll die in some wildfire out there that Smokey the Bear keeps warning us about.

But it won't happen.

I can't leave and miss the upcoming winter, which is now being predicted to be just a miserable one in the Upper Midwest.

A bad winter is like having a cranky mother-in-law who just won't leave.

"I thought you were leaving weeks ago, Toots!"

No, the bad winters and terrible relatives never leave soon enough.

Let's face it.

I can't le...