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Think you can go outdoors with your nose exposed in this weather? You could get frostbite in 30 minutes: http://t.co/oTWdTzSKno
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) January 3, 2014

Once upon a time, long ago, all the girls of a certain age in Duluth had red legs. The certain age was known as Juniors and Seniors.

Girls in Duluth, in the '50s, were not allowed to wear pants in school and the Junior and Senior girls were way, way too cool to wear pants on the way to school and then change. So they walked to school barelegged, often in sub-zero conditions, and, except for a couple of weeks in July (the weeks we called "summer") had red legs. These were not the kind of young women who would worry about a cold nose.

It was only after I left Duluth and ventured into the wider world that I discovered not all girls had red legs. Things changed. And kept changing. Where I live now, women have no legs at all. Just pants. At least the summers are a little longer.