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BROWNSVILLE - An unidentified eBay bidder has agreed to = pay $92=20 for a chunk of what may have been the Rio Grande Valley's = first-ever=20 white Christmas.=20

Bids closed Saturday for the basketball-sized snowball = now=20 waiting next to the ice cream in 23-year-old Oscar J. = Garza's=20 kitchen freezer.=20

Eighteen people bid on the ball of "Miracle Snow" between = Jan. 3=20 and Jan. 7, starting at a few dollars. Some bids, including = one for=20 $99 million, were canceled or retracted before closing.=20

Garza, a student at Texas A&M University, told The=20 Brownsville Herald he was surprised the snowball actually = sold.=20

"I kind of did it as a joke and I ended up getting local = and=20 national coverage," Garza said.=20

Brownsville got several inches of snow in the pre-dawn = hours of=20 Dec. 25, the area's first snow accumulation in 109 years.=20

"As far as we know this is the first white Christmas ever = recorded," National Weather Service meteorologist Fred Vega = said.=20

The bidder has 10 days to make good on his pledge.=20

Bidding also has closed for a Brownsville snowman, which = went for=20 $73.

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