Colorado(USA)-2014

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Silvery flakes drift down from the sad sky and leave a cold atmosphere for the people gathered at the center of my neighborhood. My dad and I stand with a few others at a small memorial my neighborhood put together to remeber the passengers on the Malaysia Airlines flight 370. I look to my father and realize I had never seen him cry before today. I hold my tears in as I feel I may need them later. I stare up to the sky as the snow comes to a stop. I think about my mother, one of the three American passengers on the missing flight; is she alive?; if she is, where could she be?; is the plane in the ocean or did it end up on a piece of land?; will I ever see my mother again?

"Come on, it's getting really late and you have school tomorrow." my father quietly tells me through tears, pulling me from my thoughts.

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