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[00:04.263]Alvin
[00:04.454]What's that’
[00:06.250]Thomas
[00:06.730]A work in progress.
[00:09.055](alvin takes the pages and reads.)
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[00:11.576]Alvin
[00:11.769]"every christmas eve we’d make angels in the snow, just like every other kid has done.
[00:18.200]We’d stretch out our arms and legs. Then we’d wave them to and fro, in a halo of the
[00:23.741]Late december sun."
[00:25.014]
[00:27.317]"and once a year we believed
[00:30.026]There was magic alive in the air
[00:33.040]For the angels we made lying there."
[00:38.610]
[00:40.488]Hm. I like this.
[00:42.577]
[00:42.952]"proudly we’d create
[00:44.743]Our two angels in the snow
[00:47.744]With reverential robes and perfect wings.
[00:52.721]We’d spend hours in the yard
[00:55.194]All those christmases ago
[00:57.794]And when at last they were complete
[01:00.017]We felt like kings.
[01:03.016]
[01:03.637]Then as the sun disappeared..."
[01:05.138](alvin realizes that this is all thomas has written.)
[01:05.585]
[01:08.454]This is it, tom’
[01:09.575](thomas takes the pages from alvin and searches for words to complete the sentence.)
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[01:10.753]Thomas
[01:11.127]Then as the sun disappeared...
[01:13.906]
[01:16.572]And with snow down the back of our pants
[01:20.584]We would wait for our angels to dance.
[01:25.970]
[01:26.733](thomas tosses the pages into the air creating a blizzard of papers.
[01:27.640]The blizzard becomes a gentle snowfall.)
[01:28.532]
[01:29.509]The icy wind would whip the snow from the ground
[01:32.328]Alvin
[01:32.517]And the trees would moan a sweet celestial sound.
[01:34.570]Thomas
[01:34.722]Then the angel souls were wide awake
[01:37.433]Both
[01:37.607]And alive on every single flake.
[01:40.343]They whirled all around us
[01:43.225]As we stood like stone.
[01:46.204]Thousands of angels with lives of their own.
[01:51.750]Each one with a separate story
[01:54.451]Joining in one burst of glory.
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[01:59.038]Thomas
[01:59.219]But then the snowflakes scattered and they flew
[02:02.756]
[02:06.192]And our angels did too.
[02:08.513]
[02:12.370]Both
[02:12.595]Every christmas eve
[02:15.352]We’d make angels in the snow
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[02:18.159]Thomas
[02:18.397]And every year we’d watch them disappear.
[02:21.253]Alvin
[02:21.494]They’d disappear.
[02:23.107]Thomas
[02:23.305]But i know that they’ll return
[02:25.843]And though the years may come and go
[02:28.666]When i need to have them with me they’ll be here.
[02:31.755](alvin looks thomas in the eye with reassurance.)
[02:31.964]Alvin
[02:32.266]They’ll be here.
[02:33.369]Thomas
[02:33.552]They’ll be here.
[02:34.873]Alvin
[02:35.029]They’ll be here.
[02:36.677]
[02:37.131]Both
[02:37.285]Swirling round and around
[02:39.448]In a magical christmas eve glow.
[02:45.461]The way they did then
[02:50.303]Back when we were just ten
[02:55.288]
[02:55.762]All our angels again
[03:03.867]In the snow.
[03:11.490]
[03:12.056](thomas and alvin embrace one final time and alvin vanishes.
[03:13.990]
[03:22.167]Thomas finds himself once again in the funeral chapel.
[03:24.578]He goes to the podium, closes his notebook and speaks.)
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[03:42.213]Thomas
[03:42.426]We are gathered to honor the life of alvin kelby. He was my best friend.
[03:51.300]
[03:54.424]Let me tell you a story about alvin...
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