He didn't actually say it, but an apocryphal Mark Twain quote goes: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
I won't get into the repeated sentences that should have been edited out, as that has been well covered by others, though I do wonder why it remains that way even to this day.
I actually liked this story, which is unusual for a Eugie Foster story. Yes, it was a bit hopeless in tone, but I suppose that's what relegated it to Pseudopod rather than one of the other podcasts. It didn't strike me as a "scary" story, as others have also stated, but I do like the "Twilight Zone" category.
The writing was very descriptive and vivid. To squeamish effect during the early part of the story, but used nicely for beauty later, and even enough to make me sad about the death of her friend Mike, thanks to the description given when Bitty viewed his corpse in the morgue. It was enough to justify her sudden change of mind leading to her going to see the magic man.
I enjoyed the revelations near the end of who the rich man was and how things ended up, though I could see the problem with her daughter coming. What I didn't understand was that I thought her daughter was college-aged from her description near the beginning, but she turns out to be a child on the news.