I was a sensitive child. Seriously. I cried at the drop of a hat. Anyone remember that commercial for the dryer sheets that would eliminate the need for the iron? The iron was crying as "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" played over it? Yeah. I was crying too.
The fierce city streets of Washington, DC and London have toughened me up. I no longer have to carry tissues in my pocket at all times (though I still do...I was either a model girl scout in my past life or I'm actually an 80-year-old woman.) There is however one thing that will always, always make me tear up. And that is the perennial Christmas classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas.
If Linus's speech doesn't make you a little misty, then I just don't know what to say. At that point, however, I'm already sobbing. Everyone made fun of Charlie Brown and his tree! He just wanted to make them happy! Can't someone think of the children?!
This year I stumbled upon a replica Charlie Brown tree. It has a sign next to it that says "This tree needs you." It needs me! But my inner Lucy fought back and thus someone else will have to shell out the $24 for the sad little sprout.
It does however make me smile every time I think about it. And truly, I think that's what Charlie Brown would have wanted.
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