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This video summing up 2020 has left netizens across the world praising it.......
There’s unlikely to be a year like 2020 any time soon and a video that compiles footage from some of the biggest global events is being praised on social media. The video features music composed and edited by Cee-Roo, an EDM artiste from Switzerland, and features a montage of visuals from events around the world. So there’s footage of the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, the US elections, the Beirut blast, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the death of sporting stars like Kobe Bryant and Diego Maradona.

However, the video ends on an optimistic note with footage of frontline workers receiving applause, Joe Biden’s electoral victory, and police officials taking a knee during the Black Lives Matter protests.

We are not going to forget this year any time soon!

Brilliant...Every human on this planet should watch this video just to remember we all belong to humanity and we need to be respectful and unite to build a better world.
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Runtime:4min.... vimeo.com/492754620
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🔹 True and Inspiring Stories...........Kindness of Strangers

🔹 A Family’s Food Angel
While going through a divorce, my mother fretted over her new worries: no income, the same bills, and no way to afford groceries. It was around this time that she started finding boxes of food outside our door every morning. This went on for months, until she was able to land a job. We never did find out who it was who left the groceries for us, but they truly saved our lives.

🔹Seven Miles For Me
Leaving a store, I returned to my car only to find that I’d locked my keys and cell phone inside. A teenager riding his bike saw me kick a tire and say a few choice words. What’s wrong? he asked. I explained my situation. “But even if I could call my wife, I said, she can’t bring me her car key, since this is our only car. He handed me his cell phone. Call your wife and tell her I’m coming to get her key.That’s seven miles round trip. Don’t worry about it. An hour later, he returned with the key. I offered him some money, but he refused. Let’s just say I needed the exercise,” he said. Then, like a cowboy in the movies, he rode off into the sunset.
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🔹 My Granddaughter’s Dress
I saw a dress in a consignment shop that I knew my granddaughter would love. But money was tight, so I asked the store owner if she could hold it for me. May I buy the dress for you? asked another customer. Thank you, but I can’t accept such a gracious gift, I said. Then she told me why it was so important for her to help me. She’d been homeless for three years, she said, and had it not been for the kindness of strangers, she would not have been able to survive. I’m no longer homeless, and my situation has improved, she said. I promised myself that I would repay the kindness so many had shown me. She paid for the dress, and the only payment she would accept in return was a heartfelt hug.

🔹 I Can Still Help
As I walked through the parking lot, all I could think about was the dire diagnosis I had handed my patient Jimmy pancreatic cancer. Just then, I noticed an elderly gentleman handing tools to someone working under his stalled car. That someone was Jimmy. Jimmy, what are you doing? I yelled out. Jimmy dusted off his pants. My cancer didn’t tell me not to help others, Doc, he said, before waving at the old man to start the car. The engine roared to life. The old man thanked Jimmy and drove off. Then Jimmy got into his car and took off as well. Take-home message: Kindness has no limits and no restrictions.

🔹 Have a wonderful weekend.........*Take good care of yourself my friend.
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*Whoopi Goldberg and *Alexander Skarsgård Star in the TV Adaptation.....*The Stand
The official trailer for the much-anticipated adaptation of Stephen King’s Novel..
........*The Stand is out and just as creepy as you could imagine.........

The Stand, based on King's legendary 1978 book about a global pandemic, will premiere Dec. 17 on CBS All Access, with episodes of the limited series dropping weekly.Set to an eerie, slowed down rendition of Bob Marley’s Everything's Gonna Be Alright, the new trailer features Whoopi Goldberg as the 108-year-old Mother Abagail Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg, the Dark Man; and James Marsden as Stu Redman.

*Mother Abagail told us that there are two sides to the world. There’s the good and then there’s a deep well of darkness............. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2tviyrd...

Feel Good Heartwarming Clips Of Adverts, Film And Songs For The Holiday Season......Enjoy


Coca-Cola Christmas Commercial 2020
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg4Mq5EA...
Disney Christmas Advert 2020
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl57Gy5X...
John Lewis 2020 Christmas Advert
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdU3dLZW...
Andrea Bocelli And Mary J Blige - What Child Is This
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbvwwwTq...
Canadian Airline WestJet Christmas Miracle
... www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2M...
Sia - Santa's Coming For Us
Kristen Bell, Henry Winkler, Susan Lucci
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3EYjVPR...
Aldi Christmas Launch Advert 2020
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL56Z5St...
Coca-Cola Happiness Machine
A Coca-Cola vending machine is transformed into a happiness
machine delivering doses of happiness. Where will happiness strike next?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqT_dPAp...

Christmas Short Film.....*The Night Before Christmas
On the night before Christmas, a man will commit a desperate act. A tale about morality and the holiday season..This film challenges our notions of right and wrong. Is it always so cut and dry, black and white? Or are there grey areas that are harder to define?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-gFfW7h...

Happy Sunday......Have a safe and wonderful week ahead.......Stay Healthy.
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My Good Time Stories...................*Dr. Geezer

* An elderly physician, Doctor Geezer, became very bored in retirement and decided to re-open a medical clinic.He put a sign up outside that said Dr. Geezer’s clinic Get your treatment for $500 if not cured, get back $1,000.

Doctor Young, who was positive that this old geezer didn’t know beans about medicine, thought this would be a great opportunity to get $1,000.So he went to Dr. Geezer’s clinic.
Dr.Young says Dr. Geezer, I have lost all taste in my mouth. Can you please help me?
Dr. Geezer: Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in Dr. Young’s mouth. Dr. Young: ‘Aaagh! — This is Gasoline!
Dr. Geezer: Congratulations! You’ve got your taste back. That will be $500.
Dr.Young, very annoyed, goes back after a couple of days figuring to recover his money.
Dr. Young: I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything.
... Dr. Geezer: Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient’s mouth.Dr.Young: Oh, no you don’t that’s Gasoline!
Dr. Geezer: Congratulations! You’ve got your memory back. That will be $500.
Dr.Young now having lost $1000 leaves angrily and comes back after several more days.
Dr.Young: My eyesight has become weak I can hardly see anything! Dr. Geezer: Well, I don’t have any medicine for that so here’s your $1000 back giving him a $10 bill. Dr. Young: But this is only $10! Dr.Geezer Congratulations! You got your vision back! That will be $500.

*Moral of the story Just because you’re *Young doesn’t mean that you can outsmart an old Geezer. Remember: Don’t make old people mad. They don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to tick them off.

*Have a great week........Be nice to all the old geezers..........Stay safe.
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🔸 This Day In History........August 15th 1969
*On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opens on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of Bethel. Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near the town of Woodstock, New York. The longtime artists’ colony was already a home base for Bob Dylan and other musicians. Despite their relative inexperience, the young promoters managed to sign a roster of top acts, including the Jefferson Airplane, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many more.



... *Half a million people waited on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the three-day music festival to start. Billed as An Aquarian Experience 3 Days of Peace and Music, the epic event would later be known simply as Woodstock and become synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Woodstock was a success.

*But the massive concert didn’t come off without a hitch Last-minute venue changes, bad weather and the hordes of attendees caused major headaches. Still, despite—or because of—a lot of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and rain, Woodstock was a peaceful celebration and earned its hallowed place in pop culture history.
🔸 Hope you are well...Enjoy the weekend and always stay safe.
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.....American Artist - Painter.......*Heather Theurer
Some stories begin on well-defined roads or with billboard accomplishments. But the story of an artist usually begins somewhere less noticeable, perhaps even unrecognizable to most. It is just such a beginning that gave life to the art of creator, Heather Theurer.

Although she was not able to obtain a formal education in art, all her studies of the natural world in addition to the works of great artists including the renaissance masters, the pre-raphaelites of the late 19th century and modern masters have influenced her work in a way she couldn’t imagine getting in a classroom.

... Her process in painting is constantly morphing as she applies new techniques, but most often consist of a multitude layers of paint and glazes as many as 20 or so in some cases, to reach the desired depth and detail that dominates her work.
Heather's paintings are constructed in the midst of a bustling family with five children in Las Vegas, Nevada. And although that poses a multitude of challenges of its own, her art has gone on to get the attention of USA Today, the LA Times and received recognition and awards from respected organizations such as Art Renewal Center, Artist's Magazine and Spectrum, among others.
Sending well wishes and plenty of sunshine your way to brighten up your day. Remember to keep your head up high and a smile on your face.....Wishing you well......Stay safe my friend.
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ᕼᗩᐯE ᗩ ᔕᗩᖴE ᗩᑎᗪ ᗯOᑎᗪEᖇᖴᑌᒪ ᗯEEK ᗩᕼEᗩᗪ...............ᔕTᗩY ᕼEᗩᒪTᕼY.

Swedish Artist - Painter - Illustrator.....☆ Alexander Jansson ....Creative imaginings
Alexander Jansson is a freelance artist born in Uppsala, Sweden, who lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has an offbeat and unique view of the world he creates. Sleeping House is his design studio. He specializes in cover art, illustration, character design, concept art and graphic design.







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Happy May....*Hope you and everyone you care for is in good health....Stay safe my friend.
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𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 ..........................𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙄𝙣 𝙄𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

𝙇𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡......𝘽𝙮 𝙀𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙩. 𝙅𝙤𝙝𝙣 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙡
Last Night in Montreal is a story of love, amnesia, compulsive travel, the depths and the limits of family bonds, and the nature of obsession. In this extraordinary debut, Emily St. John Mandel casts a powerful spell that captures the reader in a gritty, youthful world charged with an atmosphere of mystery, promise and foreboding where small revelations continuously change our understanding of the truth and lead to desperate consequences. Mandel's characters will resonate with you long after the final page is turned.
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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙖𝙙...............𝘽𝙮 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙘 𝙈𝙘𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙮
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

𝘼 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝘿𝙖𝙮......................𝘽𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙝 𝙋𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙧
In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.

*Andrea Bocelli AMAZING GRACE vivo desde Milan.....# musicforhope
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrCHJJ5E...

Our lives have changed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it can feel a little overwhelming at times. But now, people around the world found a way to bring hope, through one simple phrase......#Everything Will Be Ok.....#Ca Va Bien Allez ....Stay Healthy my friend.
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ᗩᗰᕮᖇIᑕᗩᑎ ᗩᑌTᕼOᖇ KᖇISTᗩᑎ ᕼIGGIᑎS............ᒪIᖴᕮ ᗩᑎᗪ OTᕼᕮᖇ IᑎᑕOᑎᐯᕮᑎIᕮᑎᑕᕮS
★Kristan Higgins is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nearly twenty novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide.She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children....In this book, three generations of women in the London family come together one summer, including Genevieve, the unforgiving matriarch, so convinced of her own moral superiority and so broken from a long-ago loss, her adult granddaughter, Emma, who had to forge a life on her own after getting pregnant in high school; and Emma’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Riley, who is the key to bringing these estranged women together.
★ The summer is full of shocking secrets, surprising twists, and unexpected grace. Despite their differences, Genevieve and Emma love each other fiercely, and once Emma understands what Genevieve is truly up against, she turns woman warrior on her behalf while also creating a new life for herself and Riley in the place she’d never expected to come back to. Higgins explores another set of deeply affecting topics using engaging characters and a full spectrum of realistic emotions, humor, anger, anguish, and pride, among others, but above all, hope.
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A Publishers Weekly and USA Today Bestseller
A heart-wrenching page-turner told with warmth and humor...People Magazine
A rich testament to the power of second chances...Women’s World

ᕼᗩᑭᑭY SᑌᑎᗪᗩY......ᕼᗩᐯᕮ ᗩ ᗯOᑎᗪᕮᖇᖴᑌᒪ ᗯᕮᕮK ᗩᕼᕮᗩᗪ........STᗩY Sᗩᖴᕮ
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⭐𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙤 𝘼𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 - 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮......𝘽𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨
Biringan City is a place that is said to be invisibly. It is truly famous but it only appears
to the eyes of selected people.Is this city truly invisible, or could it be a portal to the realm of *Engkanto...*Enchanted beings* This one is probably a place you don’t want to travel, but if you are looking for an epic adventure Biringan is the perfect place. But there is no guarantee that you can get out of this place.It is said that Biringan City lie between Gandara, Tarangan and Pagsanha in Samar province of the Philippines.The name *Biringan*itself, translates,a place to look for missing people.

... ★ Because of fear of retribution from the inhabitants of the lost city, the local only talk about it in hushed whispers. The city is inhabited by supernatural beings, it said that the engkantos are shapechangers who can transform as human or animal, without philtrum, a vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip, they are more terrifying.
★ Those who have seen this mythical city have said that there are many buildings, but it more looks like cathedral buildings. It is described as dazzling city of light with high and magnificent structures equipped with advanced technology by some ships that passed by. According to the story anyone who have seen this city had been victims of demon possessions.In some case small number of bus drivers blamed the engkanto for being lost to Biringan City. They said that engkantos controls their mind to take the path of Biringan. And they found themselves lost.
★ No one knows where the Biringan exactly lies; no one can ever tell how to go there. It will only show to the ones who really believe. We can’t deny the similarity of the stories of the people who claims to witness the mystery of Biringan City. If it doesn’t tickle your thought when you’re awake, it will surely visit your imagination while you sleep.

⭐𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨.....𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙖𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙....𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚
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𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗪𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸....𝗔 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁............ ...𝗕𝘆 𝗗𝗿.𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻
I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading....... You’re privy to these lives and conversations that have nothing to do with yours...............Every walk is a sort of crusade.

Why do I walk? I like the rhythm of it, my shadow always a little ahead of me on the pavement. I like being able to stop when I like, to lean against a building and make a note in my journal, or read an email, or send a text message, and for the world to stop while I do it. Walking, paradoxically, allows for the possibility of stillness. Walking is mapping with your feet. It helps you piece a city together, connecting up neighbourhoods that might otherwise have remained discrete entities, different planets bound to each other, sustained yet remote. I like seeing how in fact they blend into one another, I like noticing the boundaries between them. Walking helps me feel at home. There’s a small pleasure in seeing how well I’ve come to know the city through my wanderings on foot, crossing through different neighborhoods of the city, some I used to know quite well, others I may not have seen in a while, like getting reacquainted with someone I once met at a party. Sometimes I walk because I have things on my mind, and walking helps me sort them out. I walk because it confers or restores a feeling of placeness. I walk because, somehow, it’s like reading. You’re privy to these lives and conversations that have nothing to do with yours, but you can eavesdrop on them. Sometimes it’s overcrowded; sometimes the voices are too loud. But there is always companionship. You are not alone......*You walk in the city side by side with the living and the dead.
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ᕼᗩᐯE ᗩ ᗯOᑎᗪEᖇᖴᑌᒪ ᗯEEK.......ᔕTᗩY ᔕᗩᖴE.
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𝘼𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧, 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩. ..............𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙢 𝙋𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙖𝙣
Mariam Petrosyan, is most well known as the author of the award-winning novel The Gray House.Mariam Petrosyan was born in 1969 in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. After finishing an art college she became a cartoonist at the Studio of Armenfilm. Later she moved to Moscow to work at Soyuzmultfilm, but came back to Yerevan in 1995 and returned to Armenfilm.
🔹 The House, which sits overlooked on the outskirts of town, is a boarding school for disabled young adults. Isolated from the Outsides, the residents of the House are enmeshed in a carefully constructed world of unspoken rules and thorny histories. The meandering narrative moves back and forth in time, alternating narrators and tenses, to paint an intricate portrait of a social order that appears ultimately dictated by an unknown force, understood by its inhabitants to be the House itself. When student deaths begin to pile up over the course of the narrative, readers can identify with newcomer Smoker as he tries to understand the mysteries of the House and the source of its power over its inhabitants.....Mariam Petrosyan rips up the rule book, presenting a highly original and energetic novel that will give the reader an insight into a world that is seldom presented.
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🔹 I genuinely, enjoyed this book. This is absolutely my sort of novel. I loved the characters, I loved the structure, and I loved the surreal sense of mysticism and deep unease that permeated the whole of the House. I loved the whimsy, I loved the quirkiness, and I loved the constant uncertainty.

🔹 In terms of genre, this is an excellent example of weird, surreal, quirky, slice of life fantasy with a dose of magical realism...*The house, it emerges, has hidden dimensions

Have a wonderful weekend...........Stay safe
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𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓........ .............☆ 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝑵𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒚
« Her paintings are expressive and exhibit a brute force with fascinating vital energy. She uses oils and a knife combine to sculpt her images. Whether she paints the human body or portraits, she always means to take risks. Nielly lives and paints in Paris near Montmartre. Her work has been exhibited and sold in Europe,Canada and the US...............☆ 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔, 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆





... ☆ 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚.........*𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅.......𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆
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Wishing you 12 months of success, 52 weeks of laughter, 365 days of fun, 8760 hours of joy, 525600 minutes of good luck and 31536000 seconds of happiness....Stay Healthy-Stay Safe....*Happy 2020.

Love, joy and happiness is all I wish for you. May you wake up on Christmas morning and find them all in your shoe.....Have a Blessed Christmas week......Happy Holidays....Stay Safe.

..SᕼOᖇT ᖴIᒪᗰ.............................................. ......✰ Sᕮᗯ TOᖇᑎ
Sew Torn is a tale of a seamstress, her thread, an unusual encounter on a lonely mountain road, and a deal gone really bad...................*Very well done and clever film......
... ᖇᑌᑎTIᗰᕮ: 6min............» vimeo.com/379888159
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