"A good six months after the surgery, actually," Break says. "I was really a lot better by then, but it -- that was my first time going out in the winter and the cold made me hurt a lot, and breaving the air was hard."

On the next page, the photographs show the road in the other direction. Sharon laughs merrily while further back, Alice and Gilbert fling snow at each other in the midst of some argument or other. In one photo, Alice has climbed onto a bench and planted her foot on the back of it, apparently having claimed it as a mountain to be king of. There's a look of wild, confident glee on her face.

"I don't really go out in the winter anymore, unless I have to," Break adds quietly. The lights are something he doesn't get to see too often either, living in Boston.