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The Prehistoric Invention of Snowmen

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THE LOST ORIGINS OF THE SNOWMAN, IN THE FORMAT OF A BOOK AND A PLAY A Scapegoat, a Snowman Sacrifice A very tiny girl, who says her name is Penelope, announces: "I come from a place where doors and windows are aplenty; but I speak to you of an age before neither door nor window had come into being. I bring you a true tale of that time and open for you a doorway onto my ancestors.” Voice of a silver haired man, slow and full to overflowing with gravel: "Many years ago the ancestors followed the birds of the air and the beasts of the land, gathering the fruits of the earth as they moved from place to place. Life was good. The ancestors' numbers grew." A silver haired woman speaks: "Competition for fruits, beasts, and flying creatures increased as the ancestors and other tribes increasingly wandered the same hunting grounds. The ancestors faced the many, many ancestors of our enemies as their numbers ...