{"id":6871,"date":"2026-07-05T19:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:12:41","slug":"someone-left-a-giant-block-of-ice-on-my-lawn-what-melted-out-changed-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/?p=6871","title":{"rendered":"Someone Left A Giant Block Of Ice On My Lawn\u2014What Melted Out Changed Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was sitting on my porch boards like it had always been there \u2014 almost two feet long, thick as a cinder block, cloudy in the center in the way that ice gets when it freezes slowly around something, already sweating in the November morning air and leaving a dark wet ring on the wood where it sat.
\nMy first thought, in the four seconds before anything else occurred to me, was that it was a prank. Kids got bored in this neighborhood. Grief had a way of making me cycle through cruel scenarios before I settled on ordinary ones.<\/p>\n

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I leaned closer, my breath making small clouds in the cold, and I tried to make out the form through the bubbles and the clouding in the ice. I could not, not well enough to be certain, not standing up. I went back inside and put on my coat and boots and came back with a dish towel, which I used to wipe the surface clear enough to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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