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Marcella Bourasa, 2, experienced her full snowfall on Sunday.

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Walter helped to dig out friends in Milford on Sunday morning.

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Braden Stephens, 6, of Denham Springs, Louisiana reveled in a morning of sledding in Hopedale, Mass.

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George Hudgins, and his niece Cassie Marsden, both of Meford, dug out their cars on North Street in Medford.

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A boy built a snowman in Somerville, Mass. following an overnight snow storm.

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A woman jogged along the Charles River in Cambridge.

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Precipitation in Boston was a mix of rain and snow in the early evening, but other parts of the state already had several inches of snow.

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A major winter storm that could dump up to a foot of snow started pummeling Mass. this afternoon.

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Snow fell on shoppers leaving the Home Depot in Avon.

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The storm dumped five inches of snow or more on parts of Pa. That didn't deter this US Postal Service employee.

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Children went sledding in Minersville, Pa. on Friday.

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Much of the Midwest was hit with snow before the storm headed for the Northeast.

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A girl tried to catch snowflakes as she made her way through Times Square.