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In the evening, Adam took out four red stockings, wrote everyone's name on them, and hung them on the fireplace. Although he knew the whole process long ago, the tradition, after all, is more about the process than the result, so Even though he knew there was no such thing as Santa Claus, he still arranged it according to tradition.

Then he helped his mother, Catherine, put the dishes on the table, especially the huge turkey, the aroma of roasting made him salivate a little bit, but he held back.

Michelle followed behind him with plates, knives and forks, and carefully put her feet on everyone's position, setting them up.

And Brett poured a glass of red wine for him, Adam, and his mother Catherine, and poured orange juice for Michelle.

Everything was ready, the family sat around the table, and the mother Catherine led the crowd to pray and thank God.After the prayer, everyone shouted 'Amen', and then the Christmas dinner officially started.

To be honest, although the turkey looks like a small mountain of meat, and it is roasted well, the smell of chicken is all over the nose, which makes people swallow, but when Catherine cuts a piece for everyone and puts it on the plate, Adam Cut a piece and put it in your mouth, the taste is terrible, dry and woody, you can only pour the sauce and barely send it into your mouth.

Fortunately, the steak was grilled and tender, and paired with a sip of wine bought in Carroll, New York, instantly made Adam feel smooth.

Compared with the usual dinner where there is not much chatting, at this Christmas dinner, one by one said witty words to each other, and joked about the past year's life. Classic Christmas songs were played in the living room. Everything seemed so warm and warm. The only It is a pity that the mother, Old Baker, was absent, but everyone deliberately avoided talking about it, for fear of ruining this beautiful evening.

After finishing their meal, Adam and Brett took the baked cakes out of the kitchen, and mother Catherine selected the most complete and beautiful cakes from them, put them in the food basket, and wrapped them with a blue and white striped tablecloth. Cover up.

Finally, the family went out fully dressed.The direction they went was not the church, because almost 100% of their family or this small town believe in Protestantism, unlike Catholicism, which requires mass, and they gather more at the homes of friends in nearby towns with better relationships at Christmas , People in the small town mostly choose the meeting place according to the distance and emotional closeness.

Their family went to the meeting in Oliver's family in the same block as them. The hostess of Oliver's house, Verna Oliver, and his mother Catherine are the best friends and a housewife, while his husband George Oliver is a child. An internist in the town hospital, with superb medical skills and gentle personality, is very respected by the people in the town. In addition, they have a daughter named Irma who is three years younger than Adam and the others. She is a shy little fat girl.

irma only entered high school this year, but because her parents picked her up, she never took the school bus with them, so her relationship was relatively normal.

Because the distance is relatively short, several people did not drive, but walked out of their homes and walked towards Oliver's house along the road. When they were about to arrive, an off-road vehicle behind them slowly stopped beside them, and then went He raised his head and asked them, "Hello. Is Oliver's house near here?"

Adam turned his head and saw that the man was about 40 to [-] years old, with short soft black hair and a gentle smile. He guessed that he should be George's friend, but his appearance was rather unfamiliar, and he didn't look like a small town. resident people.

But when Adam was still guessing his identity, he heard Catherine say: "Yes, it's right in front, the house with the goblin in the red hat and the lanterns."

"Thank you. I wish you a Merry Christmas." The man looked up and saw that Oliver's house was less than ten meters away from them. He thanked them for their guidance and drove slowly to stop in front of Oliver's house.

And Adam and the others also entered the door together shortly after the man entered Oliver's house.Wenner Oliver has a gentle personality. When he saw them coming, he was very happy to welcome them in, then praised Catherine for the cake, and pulled Catherine to chat with their housewives.

Michelle went to play with her friends, Brett disappeared after a while, only Adam had no friends in a group of ordinary people, chatting with each other.

Adam was bored and caught a glimpse of the man he had just met holding a glass of wine chatting happily with George Oliver, the host of the party, and asked casually, "Who knows who is chatting with George? It seems that he has never seen him before." .”

"Are you talking about Constan Turner? He is the pastor who just arrived. The old pastor Leonard is old and has been sick several times this year, so that the church in the small town cannot hold normal services, so he is reporting Afterwards, the higher-ups sent a new pastor to take over his job. I heard that Pastor Turner is from Los Angeles. He is 35 years old this year and unmarried. After the new year, he will officially become the new pastor of the town." Stacy, who was sitting next to Adam, turned his head and glanced, then whispered to Adam.

Adam nodded, indicating that he understood.Then pick up the previous chat topic, continue to hang out with them, and talk about his experience of going to New York a few times, after all, most people in the town have never left California, let alone on a famous TV show, As a best-selling author, as long as Adam is willing to say, they all listen to him.

It was almost nine o'clock in the gossip, and Adam left Oliver's house with the excuse of convenience. Before going out, he saw the new pastor was introduced to their housewives by Mrs. Oliver, and introduced the new shepherd of God to them.

Although there were more than a dozen middle-aged women in front of him asking him various questions, the new pastor had a smile on his face the whole time and handled it with ease.Although Adam was a little curious about the new pastor, that was all.

He bid farewell to everyone and returned home, thinking that Carol should have finished eating for the night, so he picked up the phone and called Carol's mother's house.

"Hey! Hello, Merry Christmas, Mrs. Garcia! Is Carol Anderson here? I'm his good friend Adam, Adam Baker." Adam's mother, now Mrs. Garcia, answered the phone. The voice is that of a gentle and beautiful woman.

After a noise, Carol's voice finally rang on the other end of the phone: "Hey, Adam, I didn't expect you to call me at this time, Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas!" Adam returned happily, because the Garcia family across the street was a devout Catholic, and Carol hadn't come out yet, so Adam could only suppress the blurted thoughts in his mouth, and went to work step by step. He greeted: "How is it, is everything going well?"

"Yes, I just miss you...and everyone else." Carol also said meaningfully, and he was very happy to be able to successfully connect with Adam on Christmas Eve.

"Me...so do we." Hearing his words, Adam's uneasy heart gradually settled down.

"I watched that show, or we watched that show together as a family. And today I gave Taylor the hardcover of "Jurassic Park", and he expressed his satisfaction." Carol was very proud Said, even in the words, there was a feeling that I did a good job, come and praise me, which made Adam couldn't help smiling.

"Good job!" Adam naturally gave him a thumbs up on the other end of the phone.

The two wanted to chat more, but it was obvious that they were calling him. Carol turned his head and said a few words in Spanish, and then said to Adam helplessly: "I want to go to church with my mother to attend the Christmas Eve Mass." Mass, so we must go."

"Okay, goodbye, Karl." Although Adam regretted it, he had no choice but to say goodbye helplessly.

"Besides, Adam, I will miss you." Carol was also extremely reluctant, and finally connected with Adam, but still had to say goodbye in a hurry.

"Me too, waiting for you to come back." Adam replied with a slight sigh, but the other party had already hung up, leaving only the beeping sound of disconnection.

Without Carol's phone call, Brett also went on a leisurely trip. He didn't know when he would be back in the middle of the night, and his mother Catherine and Michelle also got around ten and eleven o'clock, so the bored Adam could only pick up the disc and watch it. Old movies spend a lively Christmas Eve.

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Christmas is the largest and most important holiday in the United States, which naturally leads to the most famous Christmas schedule and Christmas shopping season in the United States, and before and after Christmas is also the last week of the Christmas shopping season. During this week, whether it is a movie , games, novels, and comics all started their final charge.

Not to mention movies and games, the sales volume of the novel has not been suspenseful from the very beginning. Following last week's crushing sales of just over 50, "Jurassic Park" is twice that of the No.2 "Scarlett" , this week, with the boost of "The Tonight Show", even though it is the end of the Christmas season, it still set off a staggering sales frenzy, with an incredible 83.4 copies sold in a single week, crushing the entire top ten list Among the total of the last nine places, "Scarlett" struggled in vain and won a gratifying 25 yuan, but it was still crushed like a mantis in front of the miracle-making "Jurassic Park".

This frenzy has even spread to the comics circle. Taking advantage of the high sales volume of comic books in the Christmas season, DC has tried its best to regain their sales champion this time, but it is a pity that in the last week of the Christmas season in December The Chinese mv comics took advantage of the limelight of "The Tonight Show" and "Jurassic Park" to suppress them again. Among them, the "Druid" Christmas special created the highest sales volume of comics since the 90s - 68 copies. It surpassed the sales volume of nearly 30 copies of the Christmas special of "Batman Returns", leading the pack.

But now "Jurassic Park" is still on the way, his legendary road is just beginning, and "Druid", who is the same author as this novel that is bound to become a legend, will continue to stand at the forefront of all comics. The top of the head remained motionless.