She told santa it was her mom’s last christmas – she didn’t know the stranger behind her would change everything Rockefeller Center was glowing the way New York only does in December. Kids were laughing, parents juggling phones and cocoa, the big tree throwing colored light over everybody like a movie set. I was just another man in a dark coat walking through the crowd, pretending I didn’t hear the carols. Three years earlier I’d buried my wife. Since then, Christmas had been something other peo