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1. What is Nurse Thornton doing in the opening of "Season's Greetings, December 2008"?

"Season's Greetings, December 2008" introduces Nurse Thornton as she stops by the long-term care ward with blood for Charlie Manx. Ellen Thornton is paying little attention until she looks down and sees that Charlie Manx's eyes are open and staring at her.

2. How does the narrator describe Charlie Manx’s history in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"?

The narrator says, "Manx liked children. He’d made dozens of them disappear back in the nineties. He had a house below the Flatirons where he did what he liked with them and killed them and hung Christmas ornaments in their memory. The papers called the place the Sleigh House.”

3. What does Charlie Manx say to Nurse Thornton when he speaks in "Season's Greetings, December 2008"?

Manx grabs Ellen's arm and tells her there's a place for her boy Josiah in Christmasland: "Josiah should come for a ride in the Wraith. He’d be happy forever in Christmasland. The world can’t ruin him there, because it isn’t in the world. It’s in my head. They’re all safe in my head."

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