On Christmas

it.

Aunt Susan smiled softly.

“Merry Christmas.”

Lily looked at her for a long moment.

Then she stepped aside.

“You can come in.”

Susan’s eyes filled with tears, but she did not make a big show of it. She simply walked in, stomped snow from her boots, and handed Emma the red bag.

Inside was a stuffed bunny wearing a tiny scarf.

Emma gasped.

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