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Dec 2024
36m 31s

Snow and Street Lights (Encore)

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Originally Aired: December 4th, 2023 (Season 12, Episode 37)

Our story tonight is called Snow and Streetlights, and it’s a story about an afternoon at the bookshop on the edge of winter. It’s also about a bell jingling on a dog’s collar, the soft buffer of the first snowfall, a door held open by a stranger, and a pack of paper stars. 

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