Memories of Christmas... “Five days until the holiday...” I repeated again in my mind. She took a deep breath - and then, along with the cold, burning air, a new feeling entered her heart. But it didn’t get inside from somewhere outside, where the air came from, but floated out from the depths of my own body. And it was a feeling of joy and expectation of a miracle that never deceived, never remained unsatisfied. Following him, images emerged here, in the twilight near the tree, as if from each Christmas tree ball, one at a time, and surrounded me, and circled me, and carried me away...