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Chapter 26: Christmas Morning
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Joanna's POV
Waking up on a Christmas morning just makes you feel excited and thankful to be alive to see yet another Christmas.
Do you know that feeling? That feeling which makes you jump out of bed with a ready smile on your face. The smell of food coming from the kitchen, different aromas of different delicacies in the air. Yep, that's the Christmas spirit.
That Christmas morning, I walked down, or rather the perfect description was ran down the stairs.
It was a mission for me every Christmas morning, its destination being kitchen and piority, food.
I walked into the kitchen after I reached the living room, and saw mum all dressed up while she wiped the little stains off the sink, at the same time closing the pots of food before she placed them in the cupboards where she locked, afterwards.
I suddenly felt my heart shatter into a million, sorry, I
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