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It was winter time in the Klondike in the North on a bleak, January day. It was very frigid, about sixty degrees below zero.
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Tom Vincent was a stubborn man. He was a “strapping young fellow, big-boned and big-muscled, with faith in himself and in the strength of his head and hands.”
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Tom Vincent sits down to eat a snack and his fingers turn numb from being out of his glove for less than a minute.
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Tom spits on the snow and it immediately crackles.
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Tom Vincent reassures himself that he is stronger than the elements.
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Tom falls into the water.
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Tom Vincent decides to build a fire.
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Tom Vincent decides that burned hands are better than dead hands and lights his hand on fire.
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Tom Vincent makes it home alive.