She’s Not Mine To Miss

I don’t always watch Hallmark movies, but when I do… I regret it. OK, that’s not always true. There are one or two that haven’t bored me. It *is* kind of funny that they’re all basically the same and yet people love to watch them during the holidays. It’s a comfort thing, I’m sure. When you’re watching a holiday Hallmark, all is right in the world, right? When I was a child and got scared after a horror movie or a frightening event on a TV show, my comfort was to think about baseball.

I can’t remember the last time I sat through an entire Hallmark movie and yesterday was one of those days where I watched just a few minutes, catching the end of a predictable Christmas love story. But I’ll admit, there was a line that caught my attention. A woman was planning to return to her normal big-city life with her boyfriend. The guy she had met in the small town of Evergreen was asked by his daughter, “Are you going to miss her?” He responded with, “She’s not mine to miss.” We all know how it ended, of course, but I’ll hand it to the writers on this one.

The movie is called “Christmas In Evergreen” and it’s about as predictable as you’re imagining.

-Out of the Wilderness