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I was the well-behaved middle daughter in my family. My older sister always came first. My younger brother was always the spoiled one. I studied hard and did all the housework, just to earn a word of praise from my parents. But on Christmas Eve, because of my sister's competition and my brother's video games, they locked me out of the house. That night it was 14 degrees below zero. I slowly stopped breathing in the snow outside our front door. When they found me, I was still clutching the meatballs I had bought for the whole family, frozen solid in my hands.