Hey, it's Nate, and this is something that I've never done before. I usually right around this time of year or release a rerun to kind of ease out and rest up before jumping into new episodes at the beginning of January.

And this time I wanted to try a little something different because I had finished the most recent episode,

which is episode 210, called Smoky and Bill.

And I realized that on the cutting room floor, I was looking down, and there in those metaphorical scraps was a snowflake.

And so this is a sequel to that episode.

You are going to want to listen to that episode

or make sure you have listened to that episode first that is episode 210

Smoky and Bill and here is a little holiday story for you and I will talk to you again in January with brand new episodes.

This is the Memory Palace.

I'm Nate De Mayo.

Papo New Guinea wasn't Ohio.

Bill was homesick. Everyone was homesick.

And it was the holidays.

These were men at war, stuck in the South Pacific,

Nary a chestnut nor gingerbread man in sight.

It goes with the territory.

So many of the best Christmas songs are about missing home, but it is a miserable state.

It is home sickness for a reason.

Don't sugarcoat it like a plum.

But December 44, Bill had Smoky.

And she made his spirits bright.

Getting to dote on the little thing.

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