Mario Mario of Nintendo fame died this afternoon after crashing head-first into a South Side Slopes home, having mistaken it for a shortcut to the bottom of the hill. He is survived by his brother Luigi and many friends in the Mushroom Kingdom.
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As far as seasons go, winters are fairly predictable: they present characters basking in the pleasantness of Halloween or Thanksgiving, plunge them into a wretched tempest of overcast and polar vortexes, and then neatly wrap everything up with the coming of spring and the rebirth it embodies. Credits roll and people are content, if even a bit unsatisfied with how the New Year’s Eve scene played out, until the calendar rolls back around.
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