[00:04.97]The winter cold hung in the air like a frozen dinosaur trying to thaw from his glacier and walk across the earth.

[00:12.60]Breath iced like a tiny morning mist upon a meandering river.

[00:16.07]The sounds of the city rising and spilling into silence as the night began to claim its citizens for sleep.

[00:22.61]Blowing on gloved hands that seemed to have little effect on cold hands that ached with chill.

[00:28.60]Long hours hanging pressed clothes, pulling tickets and ringing up the customers.

[00:34.48]The last of the packaged hot chocolate gone and only the longing need for home and a pot pie to warm her.

[00:41.34]It was payday and she cashed her check.

[00:44.39]Two Santas and one Salvation Army captain and she was minus ten dollars but what did it matter?

[00:51.25]She had a place to sleep, something decent to eat, and she had Drew.

[00:55.94]Drew with his kindness, his caring and his humor to lighten her day.

[01:00.94]Thanksgiving was nigh and they were collecting early for the hungry and the children that would have no Christmas without them.

[01:07.91]She was so much more lucky than most of them but perhaps not as lucky as those that scurried in the Wednesday night sleet,

[01:16.19]shopping early before the pickings became slim.

[01:18.48]Life was not always easy but sometimes it could always be safe.

[01:22.53]She had Drew, and Smat, the ugly little terrier that nobody wanted.

[01:28.22]She had comfort and warmth in the apartment.

[01:31.06]She had dinner for tomorrow thawing in the small turkey and the little Thanksgiving bonus from her boss.

[01:36.65]But most of all, she had love.

[01:39.38]It was the most important of all.