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“Kit, just ignore Alice. Continue please.”
“Thank you Helena,” Kit nodded at Helena and narrowed her res at Alice. “In defense of Bette, though, she sang better than the other soloists. They only got their parts because the director wanted to spread things around. Bette thought it should be a meritocracy.”
“She had a point.”
“And she made it. Again and again and again, to no effect. But you know Bette. She would not give up, driving the director crazy. The same stuff that got her kicked out of every other choir after the disaster. Other churches, community, school. Kicked out for not being able to do things collectively.”
“What disaster?”
“Did you notice that Bette’s got a thing about Christmas carols versus Christmas songs?”
“We noticed.”
“Well, OK. See, our church choir, every year as far back as anyone could remember, had a concert called the “Celebration of Carols.” A week or so before the concert, anyone in the choir who wanted to do a solo performance at the concert would perform for the choir director, its assistant director and Pastor and Mrs. Reynolds. They’d pick the three winners.”
Kit stopped and took a sip of tea.
“Well, Bette began searching in February for the carol she wanted to perform the following Christmas. You know Bette—nothing ordinary for her. So she finally found one and, I gotta hand it to her, it is a beautiful carol. She practiced all the time, driving me crazy whenever I visited, asking me to listen and tell her if she was doing it right. I know she’s my sister and all, but I gotta tell you, she sang it beautifully.”
“What happened, Kit?”
“See, a few weeks before the concert, the director decided to try something new. He wanted to lighten things up, so he told everyone that the three songs would be secular songs.”
“I see. Not carols.”
“That’s right, Helena. Not carols. Bette called me and I told her that I would help her find a new song and practice it, but she’d hear nothing of it. She insisted that it was called a “Celebration of Carols,” so only carols were appropriate. Anyway, the day came and Bette auditioned. Everyone I asked who was there said that she sang beautifully, that it was wondrous. Even the choir director said that it was the best he had ever heard in the church. And, of course, she was disqualified.”
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That was great. You are amyzing.A Happy New Year for you and I hope to read more often new stories written by you.
authors comments from you just kill me everytime, they are a story to themseleves love them.but whe you actually give us theeee story truly amazing as always the comedy and the love is shown throughout,,,,please please keep coming back with more they are really!!! worth the wait…..x
Woo this took me forever to read but it was worth it thank you for this great holiday story
WOW!!..THANK YOU..THIS IS …melt my heart and lift my spirit up.
Welcome back!!! We don’t see you often enough and just as in the past you regail us with a wonderful story full of laughter and most of all love. Thank you and we will wait again for another of your wonderful stories. Happy New Year to you and yours!
That was lovely. Loved the rivalry with Ed, and the (temporary?) end to the one-upmanship. I’m really pleased you posted. Thank you! :)
That was great. Thanks for sharing
That was just wonderful thank you so much and Happy New Year to you and yours, Spumoni. May 2012 bring you all that 2011 didn’t.
That was just plain perfect! Well worth the wait! Thank you :0)
Thanks for sharing the story with us. A Spumoni story is always worth waiting for.
Just lovely, as anything from Spumoni invariably is. (I hope the wolves are doing well. I wish them Happy New Year too.)
Simply awesome! Thank you.
Thanks Spumoni for another amazing story and a Happy New Year for you too.
Thanks so much Spumoni! :-) its worth the wait !! I still can’t believe it’s one time story only! I know it has so many pages (32!) but i simply enjoyed reading them! ;-) thanks again and wishing you and your loved one the best also for this 2012 :-)
Great story Spumoni! It’s taken me several days to finish this with work and life. Happy New Year!
i’m a little late to comment but what a delightful story…so worth the wait for you to reappear once in a while and share your amazing talents with us…thank you…happy new year!!!
That was just as amazing and beautiful like your other stories. I have so missed your talented writing on this site. Can this be a possible return to the forum. I have so missed the “the wolve” story- “Backstory”. I was hoping that this was a version of that, but I am just as happy with the one I got.