The Tree Nobody Wanted
A Christmas Story
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Tom McCann
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Tom McCann
About this listen
The year is 1946, a year after the end of World War II.
The place is Brooklyn - the poor side, the tough side: Brownsville.
The time is Christmas Eve. The Christmas tree sellers have turned off their lights and gone home. The lots are empty, except for a few forlorn trees that nobody wanted.
An eleven-year-old boy is sent out to pick through those trees and bring one back to the apartment where his Nanny raised him since infancy.
What follows is part fable, part remembrance, part miracle.
It's a story of family values - even if "family" means a boy and his grandmother; a story of hope in hard times and great happiness growing from small things; a story of youth and age, rejuvenation and rebirth. It is a story of things that are not supposed to happen, but do. That's part of the miracle.
Above all, it's a love story - of a special kind that is the other part of the miracle.
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- By: Nonna Bannister, Denise George, Carolyn Tomlin
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 258
For half a century, a terrible secret lay hidden, locked in a trunk in an attic... photos, official documents, and scraps of a diary written by a young girl. "The time has come when I must share my life story... some facts from the past that could make a contribution, however small it may be, to the history of mankind." The Secret Holocaust Diaries is a haunting eyewitness account of Nonna Lisowskaja Bannister, a remarkable Russian-American woman who saw and survived unspeakable evils as a young girl.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I respect Nonna
- By Susan on 12-26-11
By: Nonna Bannister, and others
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The Lost
- A Search for Six of Six Million
- By: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 167
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 164
The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisite Narration, Breathtakingly Heartfelt Book
- By Gillian on 08-14-16
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The Cut Out Girl
- A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
- By: Bart van Es
- Narrated by: Bart van Es
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: A young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed over by her parents. The girl had been raised by her foster family as one of their own, but then, well after the war, they were no longer in touch. What was the girl's side of the story, Bart wondered? What really happened during the war and after? So began an investigation that would consume Bart van Es's life and change it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a powerful & unique work on the Holocaust
- By D. Littman on 03-06-19
By: Bart van Es
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Amazing Grace
- The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
- By: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
The children we meet through the deepening friendships that evolve between Janathan Kozol and their families defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented on TV and in newspapers. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak with painful clarity about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. "It's not like being in a jail," says 15-year-old Isabel. "It's more like being hidden."
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Roots of Change are in Education
- By T. C. Pile on 06-05-20
By: Jonathan Kozol
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How to Be Both
- A Novel
- By: Ali Smith
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 191
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 164
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Story4 out of 5 stars 164
Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real--and all life’s givens get given a second chance.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Incompetent Foreign Pronunciation
- By J. Kahn on 06-28-15
By: Ali Smith
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
- By: Dinaw Mengestu
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 176
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story4 out of 5 stars 146
Ethiopian émigré Dinaw Mengestu is a skilled observer of people who offers a colorful debut work of fiction. Insightful and swiftly paced, this novel evokes past and present in the course of its compelling narrative. It's the `70s, and one D.C. neighborhood is undergoing big changes. In the mix is Ethiopian grocery owner Sepha Stephanos - a man with a complex past who fled his homeland after seeing his father brutalized by themilitary. He hopes for new prospects in D.C.'s gentrification process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book, wonderful reader
- By Lisbeth on 11-22-11
By: Dinaw Mengestu
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Dog Man
- An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- By: Martha Sherrill
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
In the snow country of Japan during World War II, we meet Morie Sawataishi, a fierce individualist who has chosen to break the law by keeping an Akita dog hidden in a shed on his property. By the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945, there are only sixteen Akitas left in the country. The survival of the breed becomes Morie's passion and life. Devoted to the dogs, Morie is forever changed.
In beautiful prose that is a joy to read, Sherrill opens up the world of the Dog Man and his wife, providing a profound look at what it is to be an individualist in a culture that reveres conformity, and what it means to live.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dog of a Book
- By mjchgo on 08-27-10
By: Martha Sherrill
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Sunny's Nights
- Lost and Found at the Bar at the End of the World
- By: Tim Sultan
- Narrated by: Robert Malloch
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Imagine that Alice had walked into a bar instead of falling down the rabbit hole. In the tradition of J. R. Moehringer’s The Tender Bar and the classic reportage of Joseph Mitchell, here is an indelible portrait of what is quite possibly the greatest bar in the world—and the mercurial, magnificent man behind it. The first time he saw Sunny’s Bar, in 1995, Tim Sultan was lost, thirsty for a drink, and intrigued by the single bar sign among the forlorn warehouses lining the Brooklyn waterfront.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Visiting an Era
- By Carolyn on 03-01-16
By: Tim Sultan
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The Sheep Queen
- By: Tom Savage
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Thomas Savage, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a PEN/Faulkner Award nominee, has long been a critically acclaimed author. The New Yorker calls him "a writer of the first order". This starkly elegant story details the lives of Emma Russell Sweringen and her family in the early 1900s. Emma’s daughter Beth secretly gave up a baby girl for adoption many years ago. Now, Beth’s secret life is being unraveled as her daughter comes looking for her long-lost family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent in all respects
- By Marlene J. Gustafson on 05-11-19
By: Tom Savage
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They Left Us Everything
- A Memoir
- By: Plum Johnson
- Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
After almost 20 years of caring for elderly parents - first for their senile father and then for their cantankerous 93-year-old mother - author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, 23 rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum thought, How tough will that be? I know how to buy garbage bags. But the task turns out to be much harder and more rewarding than she ever imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking
- By Margaret on 05-02-17
By: Plum Johnson
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Three Minutes in Poland
- By: Glenn Kurtz
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author’s grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage would become a memorial to an entire community - an entire culture - that was annihilated in the Holocaust.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get this book! You will not regret it.
- By Joshua Ross on 02-22-15
By: Glenn Kurtz
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- By: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso, Richard Ferrone
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,340
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,241
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,253
Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, wowed critics on its way to winning several literary prizes, including Book of the Year honors from the Los Angeles Times. It has been published in 24 countries and will soon be a major motion picture. Foer's talent continues to shine in this sometimes hilarious and always heartfelt follow-up.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard book to review
- By Jbug on 12-27-09
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Knitting Yarns
- Writers on Knitting
- By: Ann Hood - editor
- Narrated by: Ann Hood, Sam Adrain
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4 out of 5 stars 190
In Knitting Yarns, twenty-seven writers tell stories about how knitting healed, challenged, or helped them to grow. Poignant, funny, and moving, Knitting Yarns is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it!!!!
- By Indigo on 01-30-14
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Strength in What Remains
- A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
- By: Tracy Kidder
- Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 185
In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite of Kidder's Books
- By Roy on 08-31-09
By: Tracy Kidder
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith
- Inspirational Stories of Hope, Devotion, Faith, and Miracles
- By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark - editor
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr, Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
This is the first Chicken Soup audiobook to focus specifically on stories of faith, including 101 of the best stories from Chicken Soup’s library on faith, hope, miracles, and devotion. These true stories written by regular people tell of prayers answered miraculously, amazing coincidences, rediscovered faith, and the serenity that comes from believing in a greater power, appealing to Christians and those of other faiths, and everyone who seeks enlightenment and inspiration through a good story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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good read
- By Amazon Customer on 07-29-16
By: Jack Canfield, and others
What listeners say about The Tree Nobody Wanted
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- LVChick
- 11-21-16
Nice story
I was looking for a feel good holiday oriented story to get me in the mood of the season but didn't want one of those readily available predictable ones. The story is sweet and inspires memories of loved ones and Christmases gone by - perfect.
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- Firstsnow
- 12-27-16
Loved it!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Special, healing. More for adults than children.
What did you like best about this story?
Concise, poignant, heartwarming.
What does Tom McCann bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The author's voice makes the story. No one else could have told it.
If you could take any character from The Tree Nobody Wanted out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Probably Nana because she was so kind and had so much life experience to offer.
Any additional comments?
Hard truths of life combined with a uncompromising will to live.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Ward
- 12-14-18
A Poignant Little Story
I almost never leave reviews. The few Audible ones I've done have actually been for books I hated and I wanted to warn others away. This little story touched me. I love that the author is telling his own story. It is a sentimental story but not sappy. It left me wanting to know more about the author's life. Well worth the $1.97 sale price.
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- Cindy
- 12-12-15
A Christmas Story
Beautiful! 🌲 It made me cry. A great story for Christmastime. I plan to have my students read it.
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- Cathy
- 12-12-20
A beautiful story
A beautiful and heartwarming story about love and it’s enduring effects. The author did a wonderful job with the narration
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- Mindy
- 02-14-21
My heart is full on Valentines Day
Catching up with downloaded books today and found this gem. A little past the season, but worth it!
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- Lyndsay
- 01-04-21
Lovely
What a beautiful story! I highly recommend this quick story. This is truly a heartfelt book!
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- Lisa Higgins
- 01-22-15
A touching heartfelt holiday story.
What did you like best about this story?
I love a quaint Christmas book. This one is short, but well done and quite enjoyable. I will read again in holidays to come.
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- David C Tauler
- 08-14-20
Nostalgia, Appreciation and Hope
The most beautiful things are often the most overlooked things. Like the tree Tom McCann describes, this audiobook seems modest but if paid attention to, it will leave the listener with nostalgia, appreciation, and hope.
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- Lee Beverly Hills, Fl
- 11-27-22
Lovely
I listen to this story every year. It brings me peace and joy at Christmas.
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