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 \nI wrote this story late one night shortly beforeChristmas in 2016.My wife and children were sleepinga few arm lengths away.I was very tired;it had beena long and strange year,and I had been thinking a lotabout the choices families make.Everyday,everywhere,we go down one road or another.We play around;westay at home;we fall in love and fall asleep right next toeach other.We discover we need someone to sweep usoff our feet to realize what time really is.  \nSo I tried to tell a story about that.  \nIt was published in the local newspaper of my home-town,Helsingborg,in the southernmost part of Swe-den.All the locations in the story are real-I went toschool around the corner from the hospital,and the barwhere the characters drink is owned and run by child-hood friends of mine.I've got very drunk there onseveral occasions.If you're ever around Helsingborg,Ihighly recommend it.  \nI live six hundred kilometres further north now,inStockholm,with my family.So,in retrospect,I thinkthis story was not just about how I felt about love anddeath that night I was sitting on the floor next to the bedmy wife and our kids were sleeping in,but also aboutmy feelings for the place where I grew up.Maybe allpeople have that feeling deep down,that your home-town is something you can never really escape,but cannever really go home to,either.Because it's not homeanymore.We’re not trying to make peace with it.Notwith the streets and bricks of it.Just with the person we  \nwere back then.And maybe forgive ourselves for ev-erything we thought we would become and didn't.  \nMaybe you will find this to be a strange story,Idon't know.It's not very long,so at least it will be overquickly in that case.But I hope my younger self wouldhave read it and found it to be...well...not horrible.Ithink he and I could have gone for a beer.Talked aboutchoices.I would have shown him pictures of my familyand he would have said,‘Alright.You did alright.'  \nAnyway,this is the story.Thank you for taking thetime to read it.  \nWith love,  \nWBL  \nFredrik Backman  \nALSO BY FREDRIK BACKMAN  \nAMan Called Ove  \nMy Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises  \nBritt-Marie Was Here  \nAnd Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and LongerBeartown","cbCaihqvIb9morRP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihqvIb9morRP","pdf",2570402,86,"English","# Christmas Eve encounter\n## The girl in the hospital\n## The father’s past and regrets\n## The unexpected chance and the son’s role","[{\"question\":\"Why does the father share his story on Christmas Eve?\",\"answer\":\"He needs to share it before it is too late, and it becomes the path to an unexpected chance that could affect a little girl’s destiny.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the father reveal about himself while talking to his son?\",\"answer\":\"He recounts business triumphs alongside parenting failures, and he opens up about past regrets and hopes for the future.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the father’s ‘deal of a lifetime’ connected to the son?\",\"answer\":\"Before making the lifetime-changing choice, the father must find out what his own life has been worth, and only his son can reveal the answer.\"}]","The Deal of a Lifetime - A Christmas Eve short story | PDF",1790645954,132]