“She gazed over her oxygen mask at the small, smiling Christmas tree that sat on the table behind her. Tonight, the whirling sound of the disk in the drive was a song that was sweeter than any lullaby.”
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Thomas Hardy was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From the Plague Years.
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