A Bear In Winter
Rosaria is known in the family for her fairy tales, in all of which you can find a thread - or sometimes a hole tapestry - of truth. On occasion, Rosaria deigns to write down one of her tales. This is one, and I won't say that it's true or that it's not, simply that this is how she chose to write it.
The bear had been coming around for quite some time before he vanished.
Nieves and Rosa called him that - at first it had been their private joke, but as time went on, they liked to tease him with it. It wasn't that he was so very hairy, but he'd been wearing a dark brown coat when they first found him wandering in the snow, and his hair and his beard were long and tangled.
They lived alone with their widowed mother...
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