Twelve Trees of Christmas Page #3

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I wouldn't do anything

to jeopardize that.

If there's no Shaughnessy Library,

then I don't have a job.

I've got to try to save this.

I'm going to prove to

you how wrong you are.

Trust me, I've thought about this

and this is a very good idea.

Hold on a second...

We don't start bull-dozing

until the new year.

At least you have Christmas.

How very generous of

you, Ebenezer Scrooge.

You know, maybe when

you finish counting all

of your gold coins, you can come down

to the library on Christmas Eve.

That's when we distribute all of

the toys that have been donated.

The fire department

even brings Santa Claus.

You can see firsthand

how important we are

to this community.

And witness the joy on

the children's faces.

And then crush all of their

dreams when you announce

your great plan to

demolish their sanctuary

of imagination, knowledge and art.

For a condo.

Goodnight.

SLAM!

Ugh!

Sigh

He thinks the library is

just this archaic old building

filled with recyclable papers,

and I bet, he doesn't even recycle.

The problem is he never really

spent a lot of time here.

Or, in the neighborhood for that matter.

Yeah.

Private school.

The point is he doesn't

know what this building means

to an entire generation of people.

I mean, everything I know about art

and literature and

music, I learned here.

I would be a completely different person

if it weren't for this building.

Yet he does have a point.

eBooks are taking over

and most kids these days

haven't even heard of an encyclopedia,

much less opened one.

And with Google, why should they?

Okay, the internet can add to the mix,

but you're never going to be able

to replace physical books.

I mean...

You need to be able to see

and touch and hold and even

smell a book to get the

whole reading experience.

Too bad you can't convince

Tony Shaughnessy of that.

I know.

I still can't believe his grandmother

would let him tear it down.

She used to love this place.

I wonder if she still does.

Well, of course I'll miss it.

Not just the apartment,

but the whole neighborhood.

And you're just going to give

it up for a warmer climate?

I didn't come to this

easily, but you know,

I wake up every day and I look

for the sun dancing on the ceiling.

The neighbor's cat on the windowsill,

and that smiling face in the kitchen.

And Christmas' in Galway.

You know, when I was a young girl.

And they've all gone.

Everything just gets lost to time.

And anyway, the future

belongs to the next generation.

But you and your husband

created this neighborhood.

I mean, you have a legacy.

There's not many

people who can say that.

You know, it was my idea to convert

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