[00:04.97]The winter cold hung in the air like a frozen dinosaur trying to thaw from his glacier and walk across the earth.
[00:12.60]Breath iced like a tiny morning mist upon a meandering river.
[00:16.07]The sounds of the city rising and spilling into silence as the night began to claim its citizens for sleep.
[00:22.61]Blowing on gloved hands that seemed to have little effect on cold hands that ached with chill.
[00:28.60]Long hours hanging pressed clothes, pulling tickets and ringing up the customers.
[00:34.48]The last of the packaged hot chocolate gone and only the longing need for home and a pot pie to warm her.
[00:41.34]It was payday and she cashed her check.
[00:44.39]Two Santas and one Salvation Army captain and she was minus ten dollars but what did it matter?
[00:51.25]She had a place to sleep, something decent to eat, and she had Drew.
[00:55.94]Drew with his kindness, his caring and his humor to lighten her day.
[01:00.94]Thanksgiving was nigh and they were collecting early for the hungry and the children that would have no Christmas without them.
[01:07.91]She was so much more lucky than most of them but perhaps not as lucky as those that scurried in the Wednesday night sleet,
[01:16.19]shopping early before the pickings became slim.
[01:18.48]Life was not always easy but sometimes it could always be safe.
[01:22.53]She had Drew, and Smat, the ugly little terrier that nobody wanted.
[01:28.22]She had comfort and warmth in the apartment.
[01:31.06]She had dinner for tomorrow thawing in the small turkey and the little Thanksgiving bonus from her boss.
[01:36.65]But most of all, she had love.
[01:39.38]It was the most important of all.
