Finding Father Christmas Page #8

You can open them up there.

- Thanks, grandmother.

- Thank you.

Beautiful kids.

Was your mother a stage actress?

Mm-hmm, yes.

And what was her name?

Eve, Eve Chester.

Eve?

"Whoever in this failed heart."

You know, I should, um..

- I-I really think I need to--

- And your father?

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My father was also an actor.

And his name was James Whitcomb.

My mother never told me

who my father was.

And my whole life,

I never knew his name.

And then, a couple of days ago,

I found this photograph

and all it said

was Carlton Heath, and..

And that's why I'm here

to, to find out--

- Stop.

- Peter, I can show it to you.

It's the same one

that you have here.

And when you told me that,

that was him

your father, James Whitcomb,

that's when I knew.

- I said stop.

- I was sure.

They-they did a show together.

I-I have the program.

- I can show you the program.

- What?

Can't you see what she's doing?

This is obviously

some sort of scam.

- She-she wants money.

- No, please..

You had it all planned.

You fooled us all

with your touching story.

'Well, I won't listen

to another word of it.'

I want you out. Leave.

Alright, that's enough, Peter.

- Stop.

- What?

You have your father's eyes.

You knew.

I suspected..

...from the first moment

that I saw you.

But it was the poem

that convinced me.

Eve was your mother.

Just never knew her name.

Mother, I don't understand..

Peter, you were too young

to remember.

You were just a toddler

when your father

started to have success

as an actor.

The more successful he became..

...the harder it was for us

to be together.

Finally, I just had had enough

and I, I asked him

for a divorce.

What?

We were waiting

for the divorce to become final

when James got a call

from a friend of his

in San Francisco

who was directing

a production of "The Tempest."

He had to replace his lead actor

and he begged James

to step in and..

...he was on a plane that night.

And that's when

he met your mother.

Initially, it was strictly

professional.

But soon James began

to open up about our divorce

and they grew closer, and..

...finally, they fell in love.

So, why did he leave?

Now, the story might have ended

there, but Peter got sick.

Pneumonia.

James told Eve,

and she was the one

who convinced him to come home

to look after his son,

to take care of his family.

She let him go.

And when Peter started

to recover

we realized that

we really wanted

to try to save the marriage,

and-and...we did.

I mean, it-it wasn't easy,

but we, we worked things out

and I was with him

until he died.

I still don't understand how you

know all this about my mother.

Because he told me everything.

Except for her name.

And I forgave him.

I realize that your mother..

Oh, she must have loved him

very, very much.

So much that she was willing

to let him go.

I have no idea

how she did that.

I..

I mean, I can only imagine

how heart-broken she was.

But I have always been grateful.

But wh-what about me?

Miranda..

Honey, I promise you

if James had had any idea

that he had another child

he would have moved

heaven and earth to find you

to take care of you.

Yeah.

That's why she never told me.

Because it would have been

too painful to see him again

knowing she couldn't

be with him.

So she raised me on her own.

And she gave me all the love

that she couldn't give him.

Oh..

God, he would have loved you

so much.

Thank you.

Come here.

Miranda..

...about what I said..

...I'm sorry.

It's alright.

The truth is, growing up

I used to wish I had a brother

or a sister.

Maybe we can find out

what that's like.

Yeah.

Listen. Can you hear them?

Dad, they are coming

down the street.

Can we go out to listen to them?

Put on your coats.

In excelsis deo

Mystery solved.

Thank you, thank you.

Now, you and I have a lot

to talk about, don't we?

Yeah.

And we're gonna have

plenty of time.

This is just

our first Christmas.

There are gonna be many more.

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Hut, hut!

Ho! Ho!

[Miranda sighs]

Do you think she's right?

Do you think it's possible every

Christmas could be like this?

Possible.

I'm counting on it.

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