Tape 2: A Christmas letter
Merry Christmas, Aunt Chris! The boys say hello and sing
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That is the end.
Todd and Kirby's family gathers around the recorder to send a Christmas greeting to Aunt Chris. The kids chime in with 'Merry Christmas' and 'milk does a body good', show off the star Daddy hung between the two silos, and sing 'You Are My Sunshine' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'. Great-Grandma Agnes is visiting and saw the Christmas tree.
This story is part of Tape 2. You can hear it there at 0:00, along with everything around it.
What Agnes says
Words in light grey italics were hard to hear, so they may not be exact.
I don't have to talk real close. Hey, Chris. Say, how are you? Are you? That's nice. Tell her, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas! Happy Christmas! Say, tell her what milk does. What does milk?
Does a body good. She's not talking to us. No, you're talking to her. Milk. Milk. Yeah, milk does the box. You bet that. Hi, Chris. I digress. Okay. Okay, now let's just tell her about what we've been doing.
Tell her, who's at our house today? Who's at our house today? Hey, you're grandma's. Great grandmas here. Don't talk into there. Just talk regular like mommy's. Hey, grandma's here. Grandma's here? Grandma's here. Grandma's here. And she saw our Christmas tree.
Grandma's here. What did Daddy make and put up? Grandma saw a Christmas tree. Horse tree.
That's tree. I want to hear that again. Okay, we'll play it back afterwards. Tell her about what Daddy made and hung up in between the two silos. A nice dog. Come, come on. Nice big dog. He hanged. The next big star out there.
Big.
Let's hear it now. First, I got a singer a song, don't you think? But my shudder -hye? Yeah. My gloves. My gloves. I'll go again. I forgot. You are my sunshine. My lonely sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray.
No, never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my signs shine away. Very good. No, she wanted to hear a Christmas song because it's Christmas time. How about Rudolph the Red Nose Render? Road off the red nose, reindeer had a very shiny nose.
If you ever saw it, you even see it. What's the rest of it? I love the other reindeer. Used to call him knees and never let him pour in. Yeah. Jordan and you're in. Then one foggy Santa came Santa came to say Let the Santa dear nose So bright Won't you guy nicely tonight Then all the name dear love Kim As they shouted out It's so green But super Red Nosed off the Red Nose Rindy You go down in his story You're good 10 minutes 6 Yeah He's going to go at about 6 .30 Um So All right