Sam Cooke - "Medley: It's All Right / For Sentimental Reasons"

It never snows out here. It stays warm and brown the whole holiday season, in East Riley. A lot of people are stuck out in East Riley for the holidays, stuck in the grassy brown ghost town of sleepy closed businesses and spray-on christmas lights. For all the people who don't want to be here, there's a few people who do. His name is Henry and he has a holiday party unparalleled in all the warm parts. He has an all-night gathering in a park on the edge of town, so he "can catch anyone before they leave, and everyone before they miss it" as it says on the invite, which is a banner that hangs across the main street in East Riley. Everyone dresses up as presents, they gather and talk and sing songs. But one song, near the end of the night, Henry knows just how to sing it, just right and sweet and loud and clear, and he sings it and the town sings along, beneath the warmth of the stars and the sleeping vultures.

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