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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Yes that's the one. Another seasonal short that pulls at the heart strings. Your selection once more.
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Yup. Heartwarming and heartbreaking. I bet little kids today don't read
Match Girl. Everything for their consideration has been expurgated.
Sticking with Christmas and heartwarming/breaking, there's this quote to consider:
There was a cruel custom in the neighborhood. It was about the trees still unsold when midnight of Christmas Eve approached. There was a saying that is you waited until then, you wouldn’t have to buy a tree, that “:they’d chuck ‘em at you.” This was literally true.
At midnight on the Eve of our dear Saviour’s birth, the kids gathered where there were unsold trees. The man threw each tree in turn, starting with the biggest. Kids volunteered to stand up against the throwing. If a boy didn’t fall down under the impact, the tree was his.