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Oh, you are serious that you don't get this pragmatic construction. You need not to interpret this as a literally-meant possessive, because it isn't a literal possession. If you cannot do that, we aren't getting anywhere.
I don’t, mir is not a possessive. The sentence could be literally translated as “For me, [it] is cold”. The feeling of cold is the speaker’s perspective expressed logically.
But why use my ABCs rather than the ABCs? The alphabet is the same for everyone, the feeling of cold in a location is not.