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						|   | YerPalAl Demitri's  gaze  lifted  from  the  sleeping  homeless  man,  to  the  wrapped  present,  then  to  the  carollers  preparing  to  wake  him  to  their  gift.  "Claire,"  he  called,  "take  some  coffees  out  to  d'os  nice  peeples  an'  less  make  dis  a  real  Christmas  Eve,  eh?"
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						|   | YerPalAl ok,  chapter  two:  Roy,  the  leader  of  the  carollers,  looked  over  his  shoulder  at  their  refletions  in  the  window.  Beside  the  images  of  the  singers  he  saw  the  cook,  Demitri,  looking  out  at  them  and  smiling.  At  that  moment  the  side  door  of  the  diner  pushed  ope
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						|   | karass Sorry,  can't  vote  yet,  but  very  nice  work  anyway!
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						|   | YerPalAl Chapter  three:  Ray  awoke  to  several  things  different.  For  one,  there  was  the  smell  of  hot  food.  And  there  was  music,  like  a  choir.  He  rubbed  his  nose  and  cracked  open  his  eyes  and  there  on  a  table  in  front  of  him  was  a  festively  wrapped  present,  a  cup  of
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						|   | Square Awww,  now  you  should  be  writing  for  The  New  Yorker  with  a  story  like  that!
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			| by YerPalAl 
   Created December 13, 2004
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