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[Music]
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Hello everyone and welcome to the world famous Hurricane Theater.
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We are proud to present our reimagining of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol. But before we get
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started, if you need to leave the theater at any time, please exit the way you came in. Please silent all your phones. Uh, turn them off if you want.
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Um, we allow pictures, but please no flash photography. Now, if you excuse me a second, I think the train is leaving.
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I conduct some business real quick. Excuse me, sir. You have your ticket? Yes, sir.
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Go ahead. Say travels. Merry Christmas. And now let's please turn our attention
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to the masters of the 88. We are proud to present to you
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Christmas Carol. [Applause]
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[Music]
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Engine 17 now arriving in Calico. Passengers will disembark.
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[Applause] [Music] Behold for Christmas.
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You can count on me. Please
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[Music] and present on the tree.
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[Music] It's been 5 years since I left home. How
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you folks doing? You having a good time this great bar. Nothing like Christmas in Calico. All
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right. Grabbing a hot chocolate at the Calico Saloon, hot chestnuts in the barn, or finding just that right for
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someone special. Feels good to be going home. Reminds me of another time about 10 years ago. Another Christmas Eve. I
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can almost see it. Christmas Eve will find me
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where the love leads. I'll be home for Christmas.
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In my dreams, there's old Scrooge. He and Marley used
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to run the trains here in Calico. He is just like I remember him. Hey, Scrooge.
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How's your partner Marley? Dead. Dead as a door. Died 7 years ago
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this very night. Yes, Jacob Marley was dead. There was no doubt. Let us go back in time 10 years
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to tell our story. I want these trains to run on time. I don't care if it is
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Christmas Eve. Scrooge never painted out Marley's name. There it stood on the train platform. Scrooge and Marley.
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Some new passengers called Scrooge Scrooge and some called Scrooge Marley. He answered both names. It was all the
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same to him. Old Scrooge was a top missing and squeezing, wrenching, grasping,
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clutching on this old sinner. On time, I said get out of my way.
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Christmas Eve will find me where the love I please.
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I'll be home for Christmas
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in my dreams. Engine 42 now departing.
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[Applause] It was cold, bleak, and bite winter
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weather in Calico. The sky was dark. There not been sunshine all day. His Heavenly Father knew there must be
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darkness before light. Scrooge was an icy soul who kept the world out, warning
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all of humanity to keep its distance. But there was a time for all the good days of the year on Christmas Eve. Ols
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through sat in his office bouring over his leisure books alongside his only clerk Bob Cret.
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[Music]
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Here's the crescent. There may be a gold rush going on, but no man ever got rich by squandering his fortune.
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But sir, the fire is dying. Let it die. The warmth is sufficient. But
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Mr. Cratchet, put another scrap of coal on that fire and your next train ride
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will be to the unemployment line.
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Merry Christmas, Uncle God save you.
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Christmas humble. You don't mean that. I'm sure I do mean it. Merry Christmas. What right have you to marry? You're
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poor enough. Then what right have you to be dismally? You're rich enough. Humble. Don't be cross. Uncle, what else can I
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be when I live in such a world of fools as this? I say every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips
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should be boiled with his own pudding and the steak of holly through his heart.
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Uncle nephew, you keep Christmas in your way and let me keep it in mine. But you don't keep it.
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And let me leave it alone. What good has it ever done you? Well, I guess I've always thought of
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Christmas as a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable time. And though it has never put a scrap of gold or
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silver in my pocket, I believe it has done me good and will do me good. And I say, "God bless it."
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Mr. Cricket, let me hear another sound from you and you'll be on that train. First class to nowhere.
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Come, Uncle, don't be that way. Come have dinner with us at the grill tomorrow night.
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No. But why? Why? Why did you marry against my wishes? Well, that's an easy
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one. Because I fell in love. Because I fell in love.
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Good afternoon. But you never came to see me before my marriage. Why is that a reason not to come now? Come have poison pie with us
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tomorrow. Good afternoon. Why can't we be friends?
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Good afternoon, nephew. Enjoy your pie and frivolity without me.
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I am sorry with all my heart to find you so stuck in your stubborn ways, but I will
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keep my Christmas cheer to the last. So, a merry Christmas I say to you on day
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and a happy new year. Happy New Year.
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I carry the wand. Wow.
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There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmas.
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Scrooge and Marley, I believe. Have we the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley?
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I'm Bob. That's Mr. Scrooge. Mr. Marley is no longer with us. Well, we have no doubt
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that his generosity will be well represented by his surviving partner
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and Mr. Scrooge. At this festive time of year, we at the Calico welfare office
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believe it is our civic duty to make some slight provision for the poor and the destitute in town.
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Are there no prisons? Prisons? Yes. The um the Sweetwater Prison is
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still in operation. And the mines, are they still in operation? Yes. Yes, they are. Though I wish I
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could say they were not. Many a father have died to the way in a mine shaft.
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But I was afraid from what you said at first that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course. I'm
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very glad to hear that is not the case. Dirty hands are productive hands, as my
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father used to say when he was sober. A few of us in town are raising a bond
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to provide some food and comfort for those in want. Excuse me. How much shall
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we put you down for?
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Nothing. Oh, you wish to remain anonymous. I wish to be left alone. I myself do not
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make merry Christmas and I cannot afford to make idle people merry. I support the establishments I mentioned. They cost enough. Those who are badly off must go
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there. Oh, but but many would rather die. If they would rather die, they had better get to it and decrease the
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surplus population. Good day to you both.
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Well, good day to you, sir.
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Oh, and merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas.
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B the B guy. You are the most individual that I have
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ever met. I hope in your studies forget all about you.
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[Music]
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Oops. Ow.
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[Music]
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You want the whole day off tomorrow? I suppose. Bob.
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Well, if it's quite convenient, sir. It is not convenient. It's not fair to pay a man a day's wages for no work.
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It's only once a year. A for excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December.
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Well, you must spend the whole date meeting here all the next meal. Yes, sir. Oh, well, thank you, sir.
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Oh, and a merry never mind. Fool. A very merry Christmas on his
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salary. A man with his family all those mouths to feed. Nonsense.
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Still there. Get away from there. Be gone, you little goddess.
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I'll get you your little skyline.
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[Music] Scrooge made his way to his bleak home behind the Capital Bank. To him,
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Christmas Eve was a night like any other, but things were about to take a different ghostly turn.
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[Music]
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Who's that? Scrooge.
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Who goes there? Scrooge.
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What do you want? In life, I was your partner, Jacob
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Marley.
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You don't believe in me? No, I don't. You're a humble hand.
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Foolish man. Do you believe in me or not? I do. I do. I must. But why you come to me? It is required of every man that the
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spirit within him shall walk amongst his fellow men. If the spirit does not go
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forth in life, it is required to do so in death.
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Jacob, you're wrapping chains. Why? I bear the chains I forged in life. I
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made them link my link, my yard of my own free will.
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The chains you bear were as long and heavy as this seven Christmas Eve ago.
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And you have labored on them since Jacob. Speak of comfort to me.
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Not to do. I cannot make them. I wasted my time.
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But Jacob, you made the trains run on time. You were a good man of business.
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McDonald's was my business. Charity mercy were my business. Oh, hear me, Ebenezer. Hear me. You still have a
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chance of hope to escape my fate. That
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is why I have come to you. You always weren't a good friend to me, Jacob. I thank you. What is it you
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intend to do tonight? You will be haunted.
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[Music] Did you say haunted? I did by three ghosts. Expect the first
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when the clock goes wild. Could nothing more once than get it over with. Look to it.
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Look to him. You cannot hope to escape my prettiest fate.
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My time is nearly done. Remember me, Eenezer, and remember what
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has passed between us. I love Jacob.
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Take off.
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It's just a bad dream. Nothing. [Music]
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Are you a spirit, miss? Yes. The first of the spirits whose coming was foretold to me.
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Yes. off of those Christmas past. Yeeha!
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What business brings you here? Your welfare, partner. Well, I very much oblige you, but I
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can't help thinking a little rest might be more conducive to my well-being. Turn and look upon me. Come, you must
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follow. Ray out that winter. The Jewish immortal. How can I follow you?
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Bear but a touch of my hand, and you shall be able.
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Come, your past awaits. Let's get Lord heavens. Virginia City. This is
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where I was born. I was a boy here. Well, these are the happiest times of my life.
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Well, ain't that strange? What? That you've forgotten? Look, look there.
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Wait, it's little Milton Howies just as it was. Can you see me? Yes. Hey, Milton. Hey, now I'm over here. Oh,
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what's that up there? Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.
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What is it? Nothing. Nothing really. Just a child. A
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child caring outside my door. I wish I'd given him something. Come, let us look at another Christmas
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Eve from long ago. [Music] Why, it's my old school.
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Do you remember? Yes. Yes, I do. It is the Christmas holiday, but the school is not quite deserted. A solitary
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boy rejected by his father and neglected by his friends is left alone.
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Yes, I know him. He is myself. Eene. Eene.
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Is it going to be? Yes. It is the past. She will see you as you were.
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My darling, the dear brother, I've come to bring you home. Home? Yes. Home for good. Home forever and
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ever. But father is so much kinder than he used to be. He spoke so gently to me one dear night that I was not afraid to
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ask him once more if he might come home. And he said yes. Today he sent me in a carriage to bring you and you are never
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to come back here ever again. God bless you. God bless you. We'll be together all Christmas long and
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have the merriest time in the whole world. Oh fam. I see the two things are taken to the coach. Hurry along now.
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[Music] I missed you so much. And I missed you.
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Oh, come along. We mustn't keep father waiting. Always a delicate creature, but she had
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a large heart. Yes. Yes, she had. She died a young woman, but her
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children, I believe, your nephew. She died giving him birth. Just as your mother died, giving you
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birth for which your father never forgave you. It
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music. Is it familiar? Do you know this place? the floor. Well, this is my first job in Calico, bookkeeper in the Caliboo. Why?
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Look, it's Dakota Dan, Candy Cake, and Fingers live again.
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Oh, how they could sing and dance. They were so talented and so giving. Why? Every Christmas Eve, they closed the
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saloon. And Dan came to us all a wonderful party. There was food, punch,
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music, dancing. Oh, it was glorious. Simply glorious.
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Well, now is that such a great thing to do? I mean, it seems like such a small
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consideration. Well, is it not? Just a few dollars, three or four at the most. Is that so
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much that they deserve your praise? That's good. Isn't that why the happiness they gave us was as great as
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it did it cost them a fortune? Oh, well,
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but nothing in particular. Just my clerk, Bob Cratchet. Yeah. Would you like to say a
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word or two right now? That's all. Patience. Your journey continues.
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No. No. Please. I I don't wish to see this. But you must. You do remember.
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Yes. Her name was Belle. You were engaged to be itched. Yes, we were.
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Go on. Get. Yep.
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Eene. I've been displaced by an idol. What idol has displaced you? A golden one.
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You condemn my ambition? No, I do not. I'm deeply saddened to see your more noble aspirations fall one by
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one in your endless pursuit of wealth. There is nothing on which life fall so hard as poverty.
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Our engagement is an old one. When it was made, you were a different man. I was a boy. I knew nothing. My
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situation may have changed, but not my feelings for you. Have I ever sought to break our
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engagement? You've changed, Ebenezer. If we were not engaged, would you court me now?
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You said not. The Ebenezer you are now, the big man of
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business in Calico, would he marry a poor woman from Sweetwater?
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You're right. I think not.
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And so I release you girl. May you be happy in the life that you've chosen.
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Belle. Belle, don't leave me
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again. Spirit, stop torturing me. Remove me from this
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place. My time with you is nearing its end. Oh, thank goodness.
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What you have seen has been your past. That which has set you on your present course contains lessons to be gleaned.
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It is my hope that they have been seared like a brand into your soul.
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Happy trails. You must now look upon the present. Yippee.
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But tell me, most importantly, how did Tiny Tim be the heart? Oh, as good as gold, dear. And better,
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he sang like a little angel. And sometimes he gets so thoughtful sitting by himself so much. Coming home, he told
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me that he hoped all the people in the church of reflection saw him because he was a And it might be pleasant
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for them to remember who made the lame walk and the blind see.
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Oh. Oh. And as I carried him home, he called out, "Merry Christmas! God bless
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us!" to everyone we passed. Perfect strangers smiled, waved, and answered
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back, "Merry Christmas!" And Tim called back, "God bless us everyone.
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God bless us everyone."
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[Music] Oh, great. another one.
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Well, they said you was an honest to goodness sour dough. They got the sour part right at least.
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[Music] Ain't you glad to see me? No.
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I've been sent to help you strike it rich uh spiritually at least.
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Well, it can't be any worse than what the spirit of the past show me. I'm the ghost of Christmas present. Come
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and know me better, man. No, I'm being halted against my will. Too bad. You must look upon the now.
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Now, may God bless Honey Tam. He's growing strong and hearty. Don't
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you think, dear? He'll see many Christmases yet, I'm sure. Oh. Oh, and Mr. Scrooge has given me the whole day
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off with pay. Mr. Scrooge, I wish I had him here. I give him a piece of my mind. Oh, but please, dear, it's Christmas.
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Christmas or not, he's a stitchy unfeilling old man. No one knows that
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better than you, Bob. But dear, please, it's Christmas. Very well, let him stew in that big old
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house pizz all alone. Even with all that money, he ain't got what we got.
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Let's go check on the children. And that poison berry punch. I think there may be
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a little something in there. Oh, Tiny Tim. down from there.
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Spirit, tell me, will Tiny Tim live?
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I see a vacant seat by the hearth. A little crutch carefully preserved.
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No. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die. No spear. Please say the child will be
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spared. If they would rather die, they'd better get to it and decrease the surplus population.
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Did I say that? I can't stay angry at my uncle Scrooge
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if I try. He's his own worst enemy. If he won't come down with us at the grill tonight, he loses out on much more
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pleasant company than he could possibly find. I will continue to wish him a merry
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Christmas every year. May not take it, but he'll have it
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nonetheless. To my uncle Scrooge, may God bless him. Yeah.
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[Music] How peculiar. He He gives so much yet
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profits not from it. Not all treasure is visible. The real gold is right in here.
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Surely your dark heartbeats only for you, Ebenezer. But this time to change is always tomorrow, isn't there?
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I only have today, old man. Spirits lives are short. Mine ends as
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today melts into tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow,
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you must now look upon the shadows of the time to come.
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Spirit, I know you propose that you be good and to help me become a better man. What's happening? Spirit. All right,
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Spirit. Who are you?
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Will you not speak to me? I know the third spirit who's coming was foretold to me.
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I don't wish to see anymore.
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[Music] It is much past Mr. Gretch's time.
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He walks a little slower these last few days. I have noted him to walk very fast
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indeed with tiny tail on his shoulder.
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But he was very light to care. I just thought loved him so
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he was no trouble. No trouble.
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Sorry I my dear. You couldn't help yourself. You went there to the cemetery.
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Yes, my dear.
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It will do you good when you see it. It really is a lovely place.
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But you will see it often. I promised him
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that we would walk there every Sunday.
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He said that would make him very happy, that we shouldn't mind it.
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And not to be grieved for my child. My poor little child.
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Tiny children. This didn't have to happen. Huh?
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Paul, serious, ask me this question. Are these the shadows of things that will be
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or the shadows of things that might be? Stay. Answer me please. Are these the
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shadows the things that will be or might be? The shadows of time to come may be
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dispelled by an altered life. Thank you spirit. Can you show me in the
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shadows of the time to come what is to become of me? A cemetery. Look there.
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Eene Scrooge. He died alone on Christmas Eve.
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No, please. I'm not the man I was. I am
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changed. Tell me I'll be spong right on the stove. I'm serving a million change of shadows in the time to come. My older
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life will honor Christmas in my heart. I try to keep it all year long. Oh, please
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spirit. Please forgive me. Forgive me. Forgive me.
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[Music] Spirit.
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Spirit. [Applause] Roffus.
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[Music] Where am I? Oh, look. I'm back in my rooms.
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Ouch. I'm alive. I'm alive.
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I don't know what to do. I would just say it. I thank you, Spirit. Thank you. Thank you, Jacob. I will not forget the
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lessons I have learned. The shadows of the time to come may be dispelled by an altered life. And they will be. They
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will be. I wonder what day it is. Is alive with it. Oh. Oh, you there, my
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fine brother. What's today? Today? Why, it's Christmas Day?
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Christmas? It's Christmas Day. The spirits, they did it all in one
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night. Well, of course they did. Spirits can do anything they like. Oh, I'm I'm as light as a feather. I'm as merry as a
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school boy. I feel like a baby. Oh, there's so much to do,
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so much to be done. I know where to begin. Well, first of all, we're going to get that I should or I
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don't deserve to be so happy. But I can't help it.
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I can't help it. And Scrooge was changed. That very
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morning, he purchased the prize turkey. Not the little prize turkey, but the big one, and sent it to Bobcratch and his
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family on the condition that no one should know who sent it. Then dressed in his best, he went out into the streets.
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Good morning to you.
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Mr. Scrooge. Yes, it is. I fear my name may not be
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pleasant to you. Allow me to ask your pardon. Well, if you would have the goodness to accept um this if you
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please. Here you go. Right there.
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Bless me. Oh, my dear Mr. Scrooge, are you quite certain? Oh, yes. And not a nickel less. A great
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many back payments are included, I assure you. I don't know what to say to such generosity. Please don't say anything at all. You
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will come to visit me for future donations. Oh, I will. Yes, I will certainly will. Oh, I very much obl. Thank you so much.
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Oh, madam, if I may, just just one more thing. I would like to wish you a very merry
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Christmas and a great many bad payments on that as well.
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Oh, Mr. Scrooge, it's not how many you've missed, it's how many you have
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left to give. Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge. Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas, partner.
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Merry Christmas.
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Oh, you there. Don't run away. Come and get your Christmas hug. Haha.
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That very day, that very wonderful Christmas day, Scrooge went to church, walked the streets of Calico, and found
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that everything could make him happy. Uncle Scrooge capped the night out by having dinner with me and the Mrs. at
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the grill that night. I am glad to say that both pie and frivolity were had. I
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haven't seen him smile that long or hard since, well, ever.
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Early the next morning, Uncle Scrooge went straight to his office at the train depot. He wanted to get there first and
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catch Bob Cratchet coming in late. It was the very thing he had his heart set up on. The clock struck nine.
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No, Bob. A quarter pass. Still no Bob. He was a full 18 minutes behind.
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Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh, what fun. I'm hiding and I I I don't know the rest of the
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word.
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Mr. What do you mean by coming here at this time of day? I'm very sorry. I am behind my time.
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Yes, indeed. I think you are. Step this way, you please. No, it's only once a year, sir. It won't
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be repeated. You see, I was thinking, brother M. Quiet as a present. No, I'm not going to stand with this king any longer. And therefore, And
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therefore, I am about to raise your salary.
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Don't raise my salary. Wait, what?
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[Laughter]
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[Applause] It's all right, Mom. I haven't taken
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leave of my senses. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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No, you see, Bob, I've come to my senses truly.
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Merry Christmas, Paul. Merry Christmas, sir. A merry Christmas, my very good
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fellow here. Ranger, sorry. My shall dearly assist your struggling family.
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We'll discuss your affairs this very afternoon over a hot mother Coco over at
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the city. But here's what we should do. First, I want you to build up a roaring fire before you got an eyeball.
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Mr. Brute was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more. He became as good a friend, as good a boss,
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and as good a man as this good world has ever known. And Mr. Scrooge spent the next decade making good on his promise.
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The train is here, dear. That means our son's home from college. Hi, Tim.
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[Music] I'm not that anymore, ma.
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Merry Christmas, Mom. Merry Christmas, Dad. Merry Christmas, son.
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Over the years, Scrooge was like a second father. Well, it's about time you showed up.
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Merry Christmas, my boy. Merry Christmas, Kim. Oh, you remember Belle? Of course. Merry Christmas to the both
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of you. And thank you, Mr. Scrooge, for all that you've done for me. Thank you
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for saving my life. No, Tim, it was you who saved mine. I
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may not have many Christmases left, but I intend to make each and every single
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one of them count. And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well every day of the year. May that truly be said
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of all of us during this wonderfully joyous season. And so, as I once observed, God bless us.
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God bless us everyone. [Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music] The love of God is
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every single [Music]
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[Applause]
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I'll be my home for the holiday
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[Music] you go.
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[Music]
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