It's beautiful in here, how on earth did you ever accomplish all of this while I was gone?"With a kiss on the cheek, she let go and moved further into...their living room. The fireplace was blazing and had a stocking for each of them. She spun around, trying to take everything in. "It's just perfect, like a fairytale." I wanted to give you something special ... especially this year." Their last few Christmases had been full of stress, but now that the war was over, they could finally relax and he. Amy sat on the sofa and watched the box, and the youngsters by tradition, did the washing up and putting away, mum cooked it, so it was only fair… at least according to dad! It was the first time they had been close for any length, since mother had come home and disturbed them a night or two back. Tony if anything was by now more frustrated than ever, he had been oh so close to his goal, when he had had to trot off to his room at the end of the corridor over the garage extension. He stood at. He let out a yell and knocked some other kids out of the way and grabbed Benny and lifted him up in the air and threw him down on the floor.Benny actually bounced once. Then he just lay there and didn't move. I got scared because I had never seen any real violence in my whole life except for the time Davy broke the awful man's nose for trying to steal Dog. All of Davy's other adventures, I only heard about second hand.Mister Corbett heard the commotion and ran out of the school office and. I pull in behind the line of cars and see that even though we're here early there are already a few people here. Strangely enough, you'd expect there to be many more. After all, Jeff lived his entire life here in town. You'd have kind of expected everyone to come out to bid him farewell. Since Jeff had started out as a doctor you'd have expected there to be a lot of people here just to acknowledge all of the good he'd done. But then his last few years probably weren't spent in the medical.