It's Christmas Eve and after holding back all Advent my tree is up, the presents are under it and thanks to the cleaning lady it's looking respectable in here. Secular Christmas is always hard on Rocky because his parents are dead and his brother is estranged. The family was Baptist and in their denomination it w perfectly fine to come to church two or three times a year as long as you tithed so it's only the secular stuff that he has to fill his memories. He concentrates and finds joy in the purely Catholic feast and it's not really Christmas for him until Midnight Mass. I'm doing Prime Rib for dinner for the first time and I really hope I don't mess it up.
Please don't show the film of that poor woman on the New York subway. It just adds to her family's suffering. To those who ask why nobody helped her I'll just say this. In New York City the people claim to be tough but really they're just terrified and a pit apathetic. When the lion attacks; what do the antelope do? They run. They may feel some sympathy for Fred, the antelope who was next to them but they are mainly concerned with the fact that while the lion is satisfied with Fred, they are free to go on with their day. The NYC subway is a dangerous place. Rape, assault, robbery, and murder happen there and if you are a tourist and still want to go to NYC, stay off the subway.
May God have mercy on that woman's soul. May her family find a way to go on and find peace of mind.
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