In the Spirit of Xmas_The stories I learnt when I was 10_The Little Match Girl

I am rewriting some of most loved classic Xmas stories, from an observer's point of view, something I tried back in high school. I find it very much fun, I do hope you like it.

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson

There was this little girl, sitting so still outside the windows. I was just wondering why she was sitting there so early in the morning. I got to sleep in this morning because daddy said I could open my presents last night, so there was no need to be up early. The girl looked familiar. I saw her looking over the fence to my school yard a few times. She seemed sad. I wanted to come up and ask her why she peeped at us, but when I came too close, she ran away. I wanted to ask her to play with us.

I ran and called for dad. He ran outside, tried to wake her up, but then couldn't. I didn't know why. I saw a lot of burnt matches around her. I didn't know why. I saw dad and aunt's tears. Again, I didn't know why.

That night I asked what happened, dad brushed hair off my face and told me to sit down. This was her story: she was very poor, her dad couldn't take a very good care of her, and she had to sell matches to help put food on the table. Last night, she couldn't sell any so she worried that her dad might get angry so she wandered about. Then she saw us through the window, she stopped. She got really cold so she lighted up her matches one by one by one. The warmth the matches brought her was something she did not expect. She got to talk to her grandparents, and her mom. They said they came to pick her up, to live in a pretty house on the hill, overlook an evergreen field and in Xmas she could make snow angels, so she came with them.
That was why she was smiling when I found her. She was somewhere warm and beautiful. Definitely, she would have friends to play with up there. I wonder if she'd ever come back.


Further reading can be found at this website
http://osr.org/christmas/20-famous-christmas-stories/

Thank you for reading this article.
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year
May your Xmas warm, loving and joyful

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