In 1956 Edwin O'Connor's political novel, The Last Hurrah, added a new phrase to the English language. That has to be so cool, to have invented a phrase that becomes part of common parlance. A last hurrah refers to a person's swan song at the end of a career, like one final rousing campaign before retiring. The sparkling snow outside my window is dwindling a little more each day since Saturday's storm, but its glittering beauty is saying, "I'm not quite ready to give up and die quietly yet, not without giving you one helluva show!"

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