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"You o"

"I returned here then"

"Oh"

"But there was ive irl was free to chase the twinkling Christhts on the apple trees she loved…and where, even when she sat sobbing at the end of the driveway, she was safe from harm"

"Because," she whispered, "her hero happened by"

"A lonely boy happened by"

"And she stopped crying"

"He sang to her And," he said, "she sang to him"

"Off key"

"In her key A happy key One he’d love to hear again and again"

"If you’ll sing withranddaughter had the ht Elizabeth saw in his eyes what Gram had seen, the color Nick’s eyes became when the loneliness was sent away

Elizabeth didn’t know, although it was true, that tonight’s blue was far brighter For on this night, and all the cohts and days, his eyes would be filled with love