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"Did they stand?" I was dumbfounded I really hadn’t noticed
Samuel just raised that one eyebrow and looked at ed "I really don’t know…"
"Your teacher was the first to stand – Mrs Griled, suddenly understanding what Sonja had done "It’s actually tradition to stand on the Hallelujah Chorus You see, when the King of England first attended a performance of ‘Messiah," he was so moved when the Hallelujah Chorus played that he stood up Apparently, when the King of England stands, everyone stands I guess Sonja thought Levan should carry on a tradition that’s been in effect for 250 years"
"You really didn’t notice that everyone was standing almost the entire tihtly disbelieving
His tone made me feel defensive, and I waved my hand as if to brush off his doubts "You know me, Samuel – I lose myself in the music By the time I came back to Earth, everyone had probably sat back down"
My insistence that he ‘knew’ ain without co like we’d never known each other at all I thought of how often hts had been filled with him over the last two plus years and felt a lump the size of Texas rise up in my throat
I was distracted froly and a wet nose popped out between her hind quarters I gasped and the little nose disappeared again as the contraction abated
"One more and that should do it" Sa, butas I waited for the next contraction to co softly to her, urging her on
"One irl, one more You’re alo"
Moments later, the horse shuddered and her flanks shook as a nose and two hooves ca ears and wobbly, knobby legs Sa blood and slime off the little felloith handfuls of straw Daisy turned her head and butted her aard offspring gently, prodding as she urged hi hiirl!" I cried, clapping softly I realized I was on my feet and there were tears on my face I wiped them off hastily as I knelt back down and placed a kiss between Daisy’s sweat slicked ears
"You did it, Saht of the triu – it was all Daisy," he replied, but his tone was one without incident
I was happily conte Christ door and boots on gravel carried back to the barn