Christmas Day proved to be everything it should be. After breakfast everyone, children included, loaded themselves into cars and drove to the village church, where Emmy was delighted to hear carols just as she would have expected to hear in England--only they were sung in Dutch, of course. The tunes were the same; she sang the English words and the professor, standing beside her, smiled to himself.
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"she sang the English words and the professor, standing beside her, smiled to himself."
ReplyDeleteI do this at our local Spanish mass, but I don't get smiles. I get elbowed in the side and "Mother"ed by BettyMegan.
I've done this in Japan...albeit very softly. It's not as easy as it sounds.
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