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um

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aniline craven was lost she wanted to

run

she needed to run away

as the soldiers returned from battle and

sun burnt its last

ember rays of the day

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she paced she waited

nervously fretfully

for him to arrive

cannons fired and chaos swirled around

her as the smoke and fire

filled the air

the sounds and smell of war raged

aniline needed answers to questions

she didn't even know existed

suddenly as if appearing in a dream she

saw him

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waiting for her

calling to her with his eyes

her future and her past meeting in a

cornucopia of feelings

uh pardon me breathless with

anticipation

she waits for lord wesley to embrace her

pardon me to call her

to her destiny ms cassadine

yes fletcher reese aniline's favorite

vlogger

so this is the ninth book in the aniline

craven series

that's correct that wasn't a question i

was wondering how does it differ from

your previous efforts

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well in this installment anna lyne is

finally ready to relinquish her fame and

fortune for the man of her dreams

that's why it's called losing it all for

love

isn't that what she did in the last book

leaving it all for love

didn't she give away all her riches to a

french orphanage to impress

jeffrey st pierre only to leave him

before the start of the next book

and and the book before that she got

stranded in

amish country for thanksgiving parted

with everything to gain the trust

of that incredibly buff dutch blacksmith

dante von wick that's a great name we

need to leave him before the start of

the next novel

so she's doing that again how can she

leave everything again when she already

left everything

twice she got it all back when

are there any other questions i thought

i saw a hand go up back here

honey one and why are you just now

promoting this book it's been out for

weeks

i've been busy writing

my first aniline christmas story don't

tell me

aniline will almost fall in love then

run away to an exotic

new destination only to do it all over

again

boring well better okay that about wraps

it up everyone thank you so much for

coming

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all right let's throw these in the

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bargain

they'll be back i hope so

and you you hope so look drew you've got

one more book in your book deal

if it doesn't sell berkeley won't renew

well then we'll

find a new publisher start fresh i've

been making the rounds nobody's

interested

sales are shrinking they say ebooks are

taking over

they say you've lost it again okay i

don't care what they say

hold on yo wait a minute

your stuff where in what

i wish i could say i didn't see this

coming but

i saw it coming is that so it is

publishers you're fans they're right

your work is stale your writing is stale

your stories are stale

well you're a wannabe author

in a vlogger's body a vlogger with 1.2

million views

every single week i don't care

i think you will

you better check your girl

a cornucopia of fools

oh this can't be good what you know what

happened to the last author who got a

bad review from him

do you want to sign up for a club card

20 off your next purchase

um sure i guess

fletcher hey fletcher wake up

hi mom hey john everything okay yeah

i'm just making my yearly appeal okay

okay mom go ahead

how about you come on home for the

holidays i'd love to mama but

i can't come on sweet pete i think it'll

do your world of good

i do lord knows you need a break that's

what you need

i don't know mama well how about you

come up here again

we've had so many good memories here

honey

i'll take care of you you can write you

need this

rowena oh no i

see um

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i don't believe that's possible

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what shrimp mushroom a famous christmas

cocktail

rowena what does she want there's no way

that drucinda can complete a new book by

january she would need at least

a year a year what next year

a year oh sweetie how long you going to

keep doing this

i want to see you i miss seeing you six

months

i can't did i mention that it's the

bicentennial anniversary of the parade

two months uh hey that's once the

centennial

sounds great no no thank you rowena dear

well i know we're looking forward to it

a merry christmas to you too okay mom

okay bye

i gotta call you back oh okay yeah my

agent is talking crazy but you'll think

about it

i will i promise love you

i love you too

what did you say you have until february

1st

to deliver and these are her words not

mine

the best book of her life

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okay two months

two months two months you can do this

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perfect

the moon shed its pale light chad

the moon bathed its pale light

over the

the mountains no

like no yeah

the moon bathed its pale light over the

swamp

as adeline's ornate carriage made its

way through the bayou

valley oh yeah

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maybe fletcher's right fletcher

fletcher rhys

fletcher on the books

one wonders what is going on in miss

castedine's head

our beloved aniline has dated and left

more

dukes arch dukes counts princes

ambassadors and viceroys in her wake

than is humanly possible nine years and

she has yet to fall in love

these characters and subplots are stale

perhaps a change of scenery would do

miss cassadine and

her character world good and while i'm

dispensing advice here's something else

for you to chew on

from one rider to another step out of

your comfort zone

we americans are fond of saying if it

ain't broke don't fix it

trusenda it's broke you need to fix it

time to change course hey john hey it's

me

upstairs i come bearing gifts

your favorite now who orders salmon and

broccoli from south pizzeria

that's a different story me me me me

well you're weird

she flecker's vlog a little

a little okay enough to know he's wrong

what i don't know drew i think i'm

chatting with him traitor

look get away for a few weeks why just

do it all the time they retreat to the

mountains or some

remote island somewhere and they create

masterpieces because this

no i'm sorry this is not doing it it's

too creative

inspiring impeccably decorated

antiseptic

it's lonely listen to me

you are here all by yourself every day

alone you need to get out

go connect with the world finally go

visit your mom

it's christmas where is it you're from

harbor point where is that kentucky it's

on the coast tennessee

south carolina harbor point south

carolina it's one of the biggest fishing

villages in

the u.s south carolina even better

sounds delightful you've got antebellum

and grits

and biscuits and red butler yes

go there see your family write your

heart out

and come back with a masterpiece don't

enjoy an old-fashioned christmas

i don't like harbor points you don't

have to like it to enjoy it

what does that mean it means i don't

know

look just picture it toes in the sand

warm ocean breeze

riding by an open window every day

snuggling up by a warm campfire on the

beach at night

that's the stuff bestsellers are made of

so what do you think

drew

ladies and gentlemen welcome to harbor

point where the weather today is a sunny

and sandy

74 degrees

oh mom where are you

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that's amazing

look at you your hair uh yeah i like it

let's go okay um this is my stuff

could you leave anything in your closet

mom that's really funny it's really

great

i'm so glad you're here we can bake

cookies for the santa contest

and have a low country ball and don't

forget about the christmas eve boat

parade

i am not singing at the boat parade no

but some of your famous baked salmon

might change my mind

and don't forget about my biscuits and

bacon uh-huh

ugh you're killing me okay well maybe

just one

are you seeing anyone cause bryson will

be stopping by later with his daughter

he's

real handsome got quit trying to set me

up

i got a lot of writing to do on here mom

i hope you don't mind

not at all you can write in your room

and

i'll take care of you just like old

times oh

thanks mama

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i'll come back for the rest

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wow this place is exactly the same

i know it isn't it great you know i

thought it was perfect just the way it

was

hey herman

now i know you got it right so i'll come

get you when dinner's ready

thanks love you mama

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so

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nope no 90s hair today

no not the bugs

my

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20 years i can't believe it

yeah seems like only yesterday you took

off after graduation right

we were best friends and she never came

back

and you really never left i had a job

waiting for me at my daddy's real estate

agency

do you know that we are the number one

agency in all of harbor point

and i also got married so i am now

marrying cranberry

wow this is such a great name you look

for one of your books

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did you ever get any of my emails or

messages true

can you believe i forgot the

marshmallows for the hot chocolate

peyton needs marshmallows oh you need

marshmallows

i can go get marshmallows well i'm just

gonna get my jacket and mom

i could borrow your um just can i borrow

your

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so

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excuse me sir hi

hi can i help you you took the last bag

of marshmallows

oh i didn't this my bag of marshmallows

i came here

specifically for that bag of

marshmallows

are you asking me to give you this bag

of marshmallows

because if so there's a right way and

there's my way

i have people waiting so yeah

so do i excuse me

brood pot meat kettle

merry christmas

i'll show you what i think is so sweet

okay i tried to get your marshmallows

but this

this just horrible man

you gotta be kidding me hi

nice to see you again you two know each

other

yes we met over a bag of marshmallows

bryce and flynn

nice try lumberjack i just i i didn't

think this would happen in harbor point

i'm sorry what now you know people make

up phony names hoping i'll use them in

my books

bryce and flynn no no actually i was

named after my great great

great grandpa he was a lumberjack too

oh

drew is an author oh

nice she's a best-selling author well

that's true oh um

congratulations what's up

hey hey that is great timing this is my

daughter peyton

you are your cindy cassadine yeah i've

read all of your books um

i'm a writer too but not like you yet um

it's my passion oh that that's great i

really love the outfit too it's

very chic thank you

you obviously get your manners from your

mother

that she does peyton's mama passed

a couple of years ago

i'm so sorry no no it's okay she loves

your books too

that's very sweet well um

miss ellie thank you for the invitation

but we're gonna no you just got here

he's got a date to go

to boy oh well in that case

it's not a date it's just you know it's

coffee well peyton's staying with me

we got some cookies to bake you gonna

stick around

yeah okay well give me a call if you

need me to pick you up

evening everyone evening love you guys

hi and drew

pleasure

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oh this could be the best batch of sugar

cookies we ever baked

so what do you say sprinkles yes

oh it makes me wish i was in the cookie

eating contest

well we are the official bakers so we

get to taste them we have to make sure

they're not poisoned

we don't want to poison any santas

oh you got insulin out of standby

sugar any gluten-free

what's for gluten yeah yeah i'm just

kidding

i did this paper last year about

the benefits of a gluten-free diet

hoping to convince my dad to eat

healthier

did it work not really he says he is

gluten free for 12 hours a day

8 p.m to 8 a.m that's when he's sleeping

whatever

aniline enters the castle breathless

with anticipation

she waits for

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baron von smith oh been there

it's on that

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aniline takes the hand of the beggar

i'll give up

everything i have for the love of

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this isn't working you can't come back

to new york we just got there we talked

about this

native scenery equals best seller say it

to me yeah i can get a change of scenery

someplace else

say it i can't think here okay i don't

belong here hog i never did aniline

craven would have to have the

patience of professor higgins to stay

here with these people

who's professor wiggins higgins henry

higgins

from pygmalion my fair lady

how are your business if you don't know

pygmalion i don't have to read

everything to be good at what i do

right now my only priority is to make

sure that you write the quote-unquote

book of your life

henry higgins oh fine i'll buy a copy

tomorrow and read it get off my back

henry higgins fixes eliza doolittle

a town full of eliza doolittles

do you even need me for this

conversation i gotta go hawk

what are you looking at

hi mama

say what this was the moment that

everyone had waited

for and aniline knew it she hadn't been

home in years

the memories were too painful too

harmful but with absolute clarity she

knew

she couldn't put it off any longer i'm

leaving new york

she proclaimed with a certainty unlike

any she had ever felt

i'm going back home to the coast and i

can assure you

my hometown will never be the same again

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so

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so

biscuit and bacon

everyone remember my daughter drew

what are they doing here what is he

doing here

it's the planning committee for the vote

parade

come join us to be honest

we could really use a celebrity judge

wait when i get to like

meet the committee hear some stories get

to know the locals maybe more and you

want to know

i doubt that i have to wear one of those

old-timey dresses like you used to

you know you would

i'll do it you will yeah yep i'm gonna

do it

did you excite me see i knew she soon as

she came back he jumped right back

into the swing i thought yeah i'm just

gonna shower

and stuff yeah

so y'all know the rules each santa claus

has a plate of cookies in front of him

and a glass of milk for you bob

you got this this is your year

okay first green gold to eat all his

cookies and milk

wins so

on your mark gets it

start eating

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no what do you think

it's brilliant i mean what it turned

aniline craven goes through

off the grid coastal hometown to teach

the local yokels about love life in the

world

amazing what about a love interest i

mean i'm sure there's going to be some

dashing southern gentlemen for aniline

and harbor point that's at least half as

good looking as i am

oh there's some prospects

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it's okay honey there's always next year

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now for the christmas eve boat parade

stephanie you're so good with

kids so i got you on sandbox duty again

marian um if you can handle the first

aid table

and the volunteers i can do the show

sure bryson

yes ma'am i'm thinking that you would

make

an excellent host for the event after

the parade

okay what do you need me to do get up on

stage

welcome everyone give a brief history of

the event

talk about hancock birch and why it's an

important tradition for us

and that's it well that's it said

you have to do it in period costume you

mind if i think about it of course i

understand

i do hello everyone

what you got there oh well i see you

have your usual fair but

i thought you might like to try my very

own

carrot and asparagus pate

well it looks lovely what's pat

i think it's cruise liver uh what'd you

say is in it again

pate oh it's um carrots

um and asparagus spate

looks funny too do you have any

biscuits or oh yeah crackers or anything

that goes with that

oh that's what these little celery

sticks are for you just

get a little dip on there and

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really

oh here the pimento cheese sandwich is a

promise that's what i'm talking about oh

that looks delicious that looks really

good

i'm sorry honey so good uh you know what

i'm gonna

try the bat today

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yeah just make it like a little more

what's it taste like does it taste like

chicken

that's good

search yourself okay what's next melissa

um let's talk about it nothing had

changed in harbor point

the people were the same they still

thought aniline was weird

they still laughed behind her back but

through it all

she was not moved from her course

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i cannot tell you how happy i was to

hear from you i figured it was time for

us to catch up

so tell me everything you've been up to

since high school i will but first

i have a confession to make sometimes i

wish i had

just left this place too you know

travel the world a little bit so getting

married so young

yeah i know i know exactly what you mean

really

yeah okay so you need to think about it

just like leaving it all behind seeing

the world

never coming back

i think everybody thinks about that

sometimes right

yeah yeah yeah but

i'm i'm happy

i really am i'm just

i'm just tired

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do you remember that time that we

pedaled down to the candy corral and

spent

all of our change yeah sixth grade made

her so sick

i had so many soda pops i thought you

would have to

roll me huh i had so many cow tales i

don't think i've had a couch all since

what really happened to us drew

to our friendship i don't know just

high school you changed so did i

you isolated yourself from me drew from

everyone

all you ever did was go out on that pier

and stare out at the water and write

because cause nobody talked to me marion

nobody

liked me understood me well we thought

you didn't like

us okay why would i like you guys

you you make fun of me for being

different

i'm sorry it's just everyone made fun of

everyone back then

it was just high school you know what

this was really fun but i

i gotta go i envy you

marianne said sheepishly you have the

life i always wanted but was too afraid

to go after

instead i ended up stuck

in a rut

what started as a peaceful retreat in

her hometown had now become a mission

for aniline

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to save these people from themselves to

teach them

how to live life to the fullest

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hello hello what are you sleeping on top

of your phone

what time is it it's 8 30 sunshine time

to rise and shine

did you read the new pages well not only

did i read them

rowena read them romina what

i'm not ready for her to what did she

say

she loved it she loved all of it the

jealous best friend the mysterious love

interest she said you keep this up thank

you she said

you're gonna have another winner on your

hands for sure yes

so whatever you're doing keep doing it i

told you this would work was that right

whatever say it say i was right hawk you

were right

say it hock you were right

and i was wrong and i was oh

i gotta go i i i got another call and

there's a

boat drew yeah

yes this is as festive as it gets why

you think they call me get it done flow

sarah honey you ain't seen nothing it's

the same thing every year at my house

me hiding the plastic reindeers in the

cellar and less of pulling them out and

putting them on the roof in front of god

and everybody

well at least you don't have a whole

yard full of gargoyles and

garden gnomes that turn into christmas

elves every december

bless his heart peach cobbler

uh-uh-uh-uh in a jar yes honey oh

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think i should pound the kid what are

you doing here

would you believe it

what do you think well she's definitely

interested

i guess boys are inevitable oh yeah

it's hard being both mom and dad

sometimes i

don't know what to do really

seems to me you're doing a great job oh

come on inevitable

this is good peyton really really good

i'm not just saying that either thank

you that means a lot

why did you decide to set your store in

miami why not somewhere more

interesting all my stories are set in

beach towns my family really didn't get

to travel much but

when we did the beach was always my

mom's first choice

hmm yeah i see it's good reason

do you travel a lot like aniline oh yeah

for me i see glaciers of patagonia to

the snow-covered mountains of the french

house

but my favorite place on earth keruna

sweden

i stay at the ice hotel wait the ice

hotel

yeah it's actually made from fresh snow

and ice that come from a river just

north of the arctic circle

pretty cool huh pretty

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bad more cold like that in here i hope

not

i i love the cold weather i love living

in a place with all four seasons

wait so you must love christmas in the

city then

yeah yeah i guess so

i'm starting to remember why i love

christmas here

um sorry that is my dad

i gotta get going i'm walking home we

can keep talking

hey so do you like it here in harper

point

oh yeah i do you have a blood friends

uh a few most of the kids here grew up

together

so no i'm still kind of the new kid

it's not bad i think it's good to start

over every now and again

leave the past behind you is that why

aniline has a new adventure in every

book

yeah i guess so hmm

smarty pants

drew this is mongrel mom girl

this is drew come on girl what a perfect

name

thanks my mom named him he was just a

puppy when she died

oh hey peyton why don't we take michael

back inside

yes sir goodnight drew

bye peyton thanks for walking me home my

pleasure

she's great she is yeah

these are fantastic you make these i did

i get the wood from some of the old

buildings here in town the ones that are

falling down and

then i make them in my shop they're

beautiful i've seen them around

well thank you i guess it feels good to

take something lost and discarded

and make it beautiful again

and start over

so can i return the favor and walk you

back

you know uh let's take a shortcut what

on earth made you decide to settle in

harbor point

what's wrong with harbor point ah

you know when i was a kid i loved it i

loved everything about it

yeah it's just it's it's hard for me

here

blood memories

and it's confining oh it's quiet

boring it's got a lot of traditions oh

old-fashioned

the people here are honest and real and

i would say

judgmental all right how long have you

been going

um 10 years since my last visit

15 since i came back regularly

15 years yeah yeah

i left in my heart waiting for that

yeah thanks again

no it's my pleasure

good night

aniline was slowly warming to the idea

of finnegan

his tough exterior was breaking down and

she was intrigued

but adeline still wasn't sure he was the

salt of the earth

a good father and a good man who had

once been a good husband

but where was this long lines of spanish

moss that glistened in the sunlight

as the lazy days faded into each other

i look like i'm from the 1700s

drew wow beautiful

thank you you look so pretty remember

when you used to wear this dress over

your mama

your daddy used to stand at the foot of

the stairs

and whistle

i remember

okay okay i'll wear the dress but i'm

not singing

okay okay

so uh i have the teams for the boat

decorating contest

yes awesome drew you and i are on a tv

oh and dad

yeah really

the warm saltier beckoned to her it

whispered

to her of days spent in the sunlight

with the sand beneath her feet

as the water rang out to her the sights

the sounds the coast

they all triggered ancient thoughts of

time's long past for aniline

times once buried just beneath the

surface

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hey we're here to decorate hey hey guys

wow this is really nice thank you dad

restarted himself

really tell her why you restarted dad no

i don't think that's a story worth

telling

come on tell me

i promised my wife that i'd build her a

boat one day and that we'd sail around

the world

it was you know just silly talk no i

i think that's sweet so where do you

guys want to start

with these oh yeah yeah

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so uh have you taken her out yet no

no i'm actually just finished up the

repairs

good luck with that thanks for the vote

of confidence

peyton's big on christmas huh yeah she

is

yeah i was an only child too you know

no i didn't know that yeah it's just me

my mom and dad

yeah my mom was my best friend when i

was a little kid

my dad he loved christmas

loved everything about it lights the

trees

all of it

he um he died

when i was 12.

after that life got hard

christmas got just

hard

eventually i couldn't wait to leave

i'm sorry that got deep no no it's okay

it did

i'm sorry um where are you from

i'm from colorado oh mountain man

lumberjack

i always thought that's where i'd be my

wife's

from there too and

she loved the beach you know she loved

the water

so here we are

peyton talks better all the time

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so shall we light her up yes

yes okay ready you guys ready

do it one two

three yeah there it is

that looks fantastic it is an excellent

boat

nicely done finnegan might not have been

brimming with adventure

but he was certainly a romantic a poet

in his own right and a man who loved his

wife

deeply and elaine couldn't help but

wonder

what it felt like to have that kind of

love

she wondered if she would ever know

you know it's kind of big at this point

i feel like i

i'm rattling around why don't you sell

it

mama you really see yourself living here

for the rest of your life

where in the world would i go

it's my home of course i wouldn't mind a

vacation now and then

and as fun as it is visiting you doesn't

count i

swear sorry to get them moments to rest

what with everybody coming to me for

everything

all the time really like what

oh well everything

you name it one second they're asking me

to

bake birthday cakes for the nursing

center

the in the next uh young couples coming

to me for marital advice

really doesn't get annoying no

in my heart i love it it makes me

feel useful

it's that's to feel needed i mean you

have your own life

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helping people is my life

that's all i know

so perfect

i'm so glad you came home drew me too

mama

i remember no singing no ma'am

no singing low country ball

is ready

drew um out mom i'll be back okay

dude i am so

so sorry we would have been here earlier

but my dad had to change his shirt

five times

s'mores i'll see you guys later okay

nice shirt thanks

wow you look lovely

um thank you

you hungry yeah absolutely oh yes

comes naturally to you doesn't it what's

that being a dad

thanks but that wasn't always the case

oh come on

i'm sure you want to know yeah

okay

i uh i used to own a construction

company in colorado

business was booming we were doing well

nice

and i ended up knee-deep in it so much

so that i was traveling

all the time and when i wasn't traveling

it's always on the phone i started

missing

date night then it was family dinners

anniversaries

when peyton was born i promised

barbara that i would be better

that we'd travel more we'd spend more

time as a family i'd be there for the

soccer games and the recitals fix up the

boat

we'd go sailing

and i broke every promise

hey

built the boat yeah

i built it now i've been trying really

hard to make up for all the other

mistakes too

i do i do the whole

no cell phone at the dinner table and no

late nights at work but

really it's more about

spending time together now it's about

all the all the fun times

you know

anyway speaking of fun things i want to

take the boat out on its maiden voyage

tomorrow

peyton can't make it and i could really

use a first mate

um me yeah you

i mean unless you're afraid i'm not

afraid

no it's just yeah i'll go i can go

go go yeah aye aye captain

i don't know okay wait wait wait wait

how was this one sir

hi captain no argh

okay

you know you don't have to do the first

mate thing if you don't want to come to

think of it we can find a fill-in

all right everybody gather round i think

they're getting ready to light the tree

three two one

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i was about 80 sure you were gonna

chicken out yeah i was about

90 sure i was gonna chicken out

but uh every captain needs first mate

right

right well come on first mate

so what are we doing well

i'm gonna get rid of some of this extra

cargo because too much weight can cause

the boat to heal or tilt and slow us

down oh

right right we don't want that what can

i get rid of uh you know most this stuff

can go all we really need is the

wind in our sails okay got it

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all right why don't we take a break

enjoy the sun

what was that

it's okay are you sure yeah

okay what's going on why are we stopping

that's a good question

uh everything seems to be in working

order

oh well obviously it's not in good

working order we wouldn't just be

stop like this right yeah

i'm thinking that due to the sporadic

wind we're using more fuel than we

normally would because we're on empty

which is not a big deal i'm just gonna

gas it up we'll be on our way okay great

what you looking for uh fuel container

um yeah was that maybe the big red

plastic thing that was yeah did you see

it

remember when you said to move the stuff

off the boat so we wouldn't

you didn't i did how was i supposed to

know a sailboat needs gas

you said all we need is the wind in our

sails you know what it's no big deal

just gonna call somebody have them bring

us some more fuel okay good

that's um solid plan

my phone's dead you mind if i borrow

yours yep yep that's uh

where's my purse it was sitting in the

crate yeah

wooden one yeah yeah

i unloaded that one hey it's okay it's

okay the wind will be along any minute

so just

sit back and relax see

feels like it right now okay

okay just um

sit down and relax

be relaxed relax

why don't you have a radio because i was

waiting for it to go on sale

get it sail like the boat

why don't you just sit back down and

relax if we're not back by a reasonable

hour elio payton will send somebody for

us oh

yeah yeah yeah i'll just sit down relax

could you just trust me

i listen buster i didn't get where i am

today by blindly trusting anyone okay

trusting the wrong people is what gets

you into situations like this

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you know sometimes we think that the

best way to deal with this appointment

is um you pretend that it doesn't exist

we'll run away

and i know this isn't your thing you

like to be in control and i get it

but for right now accept the fact

that no one here is going to hurt you or

let you down trust me

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so um i haven't been on the water since

i was 12. really yeah

my daddy used to take me to the beach

all the time

you know we'd go out in the water a

little at a time until i was brave

enough to

play and swim

after he died i uh

i couldn't i couldn't do it anymore

i couldn't go near the water i was too

too scared

i can't imagine you being afraid of

anything

but then again

what

i don't know sometimes when people put

up a tough exterior it's because they're

pretty soft on the inside or pretty

scared

how much are you a lumberjack

honestly a little of both really

what are you afraid of

terrified being a bad dad

no not possible

i won't find love again then we'll get a

second chance

really yeah

hey

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with stunning clarity aniline realized

something

for the first time she didn't want to

run away

all the things she thought she wanted no

longer seemed important

and the pain she had felt all these

years

began to melt drew

you have a visitor great tell them i was

down in five minutes

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well someone's up and out

early well yeah i had to catch a red eye

what are you doing here

i've been calling you and you won't

answer so i had to fly down here to see

what you were up to i've got rowena

breathing down my neck about the

manuscript

you look great by the way oh thank you

it's not february yet

i know but she wants to see the first 20

chapters like right away now before

christmas

oh when they're done i will send them to

her does ruina seem like someone who's

willing to wait

i'll finish when soon ish

would you like some pancakes mr kramer i

would love some pancakes along with some

baby pictures of drew if you have them

you need to go back to new york i will

after i get my pancakes

bryson hey hey you forgot this yeah

thank you

thanks awesome that's sweet

hi hi hot creamer

hawk bryson bryson okay my agent

and you know what he was just leaving

mama's making pancakes

nice to meet you why don't we get the

feeling you're trying to get rid of me

because i am trying to get rid of you

why no need to get back to

work they don't know you're writing a

book about them do they

just it's um it's complicated

are you and bryson i mean finnegan

no oh yes

maybe maybe

do you need to go back to new york i

will send you pages by end of day

tomorrow i promise

i really wanted pancakes

i can still see you

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is it pouring rain or

pouring the rain

you know what do i say here or what i

say in front of my friends in new york

no it's not possible you have to hey

excuse us

the kid is really

hey hi oh i'm sorry to interrupt

something

no no not at all good

you'll never guess who i just ran into

who

do you remember katie brighton we went

to school together

well she's back in town too and she has

read all of your books

she's dying to see you oh you've got to

come with me but we're sorry bryce you

guys

are away meet me at the beach later

this joke

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and sure it

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okay

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hmm

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marion

joe well

well what what did you think well i

think about what

my first 20 chapters what did you think

i'll let you know i sent them last night

i don't have him honey ha ha

joking is not here hawk what it's not

here

hold on

oh no what what what happened

did you lose it all please tell me you

didn't lose it no no no

no no no no no no no no drew

instead of sending it to hawk kramer i

sent it to marion cranberry c-r-a

cranberry

oh whatever

i gotta go

mama mama

so now we know why you finally came home

after all these years

let me explain thanks to you my husband

now thinks that i'm gonna run off to a

foreign country

and marry a count or a duke or something

like that okay

yeah and all those kids who just thought

that i was

the weird new kid i have even more

reason to think that

honey i don't hate being the person that

everyone turns to

i love it i told you that

i really do okay i i i didn't mean

to send the manuscript it was supposed

to go to my agent

hawk kramer not marrying cranberry it

was a

cra thing so when were we to find out

after it was published no what what i

mean

is our family you took the things we

said and you twisted them all around

no you made us all look like a bunch of

backwoods hillbillies that need to be

rescued by

the great drucinda or aniline or

whatever your name is okay

okay these are just a few pages of the

book

right an early rough draft

i mean i was planning to change the

names and everything

everyone's still gonna know it's me

everyone's gonna know it's all of us

is that why you came home to make fools

of us

so you could sell more books no

no okay yes i came here to write

i didn't know i was going to worry about

all of you

it it just happened

and it's not really about you it's just

a bunch of stupid characters

we're not characters true

we're people we are real people

with real feelings

can we just be mature adults here

what's the big deal it's just a book

and it's not like any of y'all are

famous no one will ever know

who it's about we'll know

peyton payton

you're a writer like me

you understand yeah

yeah i am a writer

but i'm nothing like you how could you

do that to my dad

i trusted you

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mama

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you're leaving nobody wants me here

you included

well you know that's not true

you know if this happened back home in

new york nobody even care they just

laugh it off keep moving i thought this

was home

no true i always thought the reason you

didn't want to come home

was because you were salty about the way

some of your friends treated you when

you were younger

i had no idea it was because you thought

so little of us

that's not

people here they don't think much of me

either

after everything i've done in my career

my own hometown doesn't even care

come here okay

look at this

a writing scholarship set up in your

name

the drucinda cassadine writing center

for

teen authors it's over at the rec center

i didn't know

well i kept calling you for

interviews appearances

even before he were your cindicasso died

you never responded numb once

didn't stop him from bragging about you

look

see

see drew no one here ever

thought that you didn't fit in

no one but you

and i'll tell you what

until you understand that

and believe it in your heart

you're just gonna keep on running you

and analyte

mama

come on hi you've reached brighton

please pick up pick up present pick up

person pick up

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on the surface he seems tough but once

you get to know him

finnegan is just a grieving widower

tormented by regret

and his failings as a father and a

husband

bryson

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i'm sorry i'm so sorry

yeah you're sorry

these um these are your paintings

why didn't you tell me what would you

have done with it huh

use it as material in your book

i said i was sorry

and i guess there's nothing else to say

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so

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so

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okay

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dearest peyton for the first time in my

life

i can't quite find the words to say what

i need to say

let me start by saying

i'm sorry believe it or not

you inspired me and taught me far more

than i could ever teach you

enclosed is a new book titled love found

at sea

a story i wrote for me and you

and your father and my mom

and all of harbor point

hi hi salmon and broccoli right

how about a slice of pepperoni and

meatball that's a good choice

and a water pizza in water big water you

got it jacinda

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what do you want glad i run into you you

sit with me

please

fletcher i read your new book

okay i only sent rowena a few chapters i

didn't get it from rowena i got it from

someone i'm peyton

it's great it's your best work

much better than the pages ruiner sent

me she doesn't publish it she's a fool

really it's rich

it's honest happy sad

introspective it's full of life

full of love for the first time

i think you've given adeline real

feelings

real pain real joy

and for the first time i think she's

really in love

yeah good for anime

one more thing please don't let adeline

run away this time

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and if she does did i hope she goes back

i hope she has a happy ending

yeah me too

thank you i really

thank you you're welcome

merry christmas thank you

mama

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mama

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well we just completed our bicentennial

christmas boat parade

and it was spectacular

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you know when i first arrived in harbor

point

i thought a lot of the traditions here

were a little

wacky perhaps you've noticed what i'm

wearing

then i learned the history behind the

traditions and everything changed

200 years ago hancock birch

was lost at sea on christmas eve he was

lost because the lighthouse had burned

out

and he couldn't find his way back to

shore so every man

woman and child they grabbed lanterns

and candles they race to their boats

and they line them up from the shore all

the way out to the middle of the ocean

so he could find his way back home and

it was a great

rescue mission but it was so much more

than that

because it reminds us that we all get

lost sometimes

we lose hope we feel alone or afraid

and all we want to do is run away and

sometimes it takes the help of others

a human parade if you will to help bring

us back home

in the middle of our town square rest a

bell and it was used to call out

to weary travelers to call them home we

all wander we all get lost

and that bell and the plaque and the

scripture

remind us all that if we call out

we will be saved and that's how we find

hope

it's how we move past our pain how we

accept

a helping hand how we find love how we

accept love from others

so no matter what or who you may have

lost

there is always someone waiting to help

guide your heart back to shore

i want to thank you harbour point for

guiding me

and my daughter back to safety and i

pray

that your lighthouse will always be a

shining beacon

to those who just want to come back home

merry christmas

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well thank you bryson flynn for those

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goods

i just wanted to say to uh everybody

i'm so sorry for ignoring you all

i am proud to be from harbor point

and i hope you'll forgive me and i am

i want to come home i'm sorry

push okay

it's okay we're family

family forgives

okay um

sorry about this oh

come all ye faithful

joyful and triumph and

oh come ye o come

me to bethlehem

come and behold him

born the king of angels

oh come let us adore

him oh come let us adjourn

come let us adore

him christ the lord

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i'm happy to be home mama

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