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JAKE:

(light)

They got to make their money, too,

Joe. Give the kids a break. It's

Christmas.

Joe shrugs and walks into the dining room.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. BASEMENT - DAY

Anne listens as NADINE, her sister-in-law, about forty, and

RUTH, her niece, about twenty, help her set out celery and

carrot stalks.

RUTH:

...and they hadn't heard a word from

him before he died.

Three children, BILL, LENARD and JANE, ages six to ten, walk

over to the three mothers. Lenard, six years old, wears a

blanket over his head in mock Biblical dress.

BILL:

Aunt Ruth, can we use Timmy for the

Nativity play? We need him to play

the Christ-child.

RUTH:

But Timmy's only six months old.

BILL:

We won't hurt him. I'm going to be

Joseph, Jane's Mary and Lenard will

be one of the shepherds.

Bill looks at blanket-headed Lenard, who has no idea of what's

going on.

RUTH:

I don't think so...

NADINE:

You can't do that. That's blasphemy.

If anybody pretends to be Christ,

it's blasphemy.

BILL:

But he's only a baby.

Anne nods in agreement. Bill seems disappointed.

INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY

Jake and West stand with their arms around their respective

daughters, Kristen and Marsha. The girls squirm and giggle

politely.

JAKE:

(teasing Marsha)

Your dad and I aren't sure you and

Kristen should go on the YC Convention

tomorrow.

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