TRIBUTE TO HOLIDAYS

Hallmark Christmas Movies

(Featuring the Beauty, the Greedy Developer, and the Old Beau)

Hallmark movies with not-so-tense Plots to keep us in suspense: (Ooooh…what’s gonna happen?)

The beauty returns to small hometown Which greedy developer plans to tear down.

The beauty meets her high school beau, You know how these things tend to go, Love blossoms like it did of old, But then, alas, the fire grows cold.

(Oh, no!)

Overheard phone call misunderstood, And one decides the other’s no good.

(Aaaw…) Faces of lovers filled with pain, ‘Til all gets straightened out again!

(Then…) Good old nostalgia has its way— Town must be saved by Christmas Day!

(Gasp! So little time!)

Old traditions sentimentally praised, Aha! Just in time the money is raised!

(Phew!)

Everybody’s happy, and…wait…wait for this… Movie ends with a last-minute kiss!

(Be still my heart!)

—Fred Wind, LW contributor