The simple pleasure of choosing a Christmas tree was enough to put the
laughter back in her eyes.
“This one!” Shane exclaimed, stopping in front of a short-needle pine.
“It's exactly right.”
“It doesn't look much different from the other five hundred trees we've looked at,”
Vance grumbled, slicing the point of his shovel into the snow.
“That's because you don't have a connoisseur's eye,” she said condescendingly.
He scooped up a handful of snow and rubbed it into her face.
“Be that as it may,” Shane continued with remarkable aplomb,
“this is the one. Dig,” she instructed, and stepping back, folded her arms.
First Impressions
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By Trevor Webb - Own work, CC BY 4.0,
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