'Naturally, with such kindness and understanding, the Old Administrator simply wept more explaining in between sobs that he wasn't really mean and nasty, it was just that - just that - But more sobs prevented him from telling everyone what it was. Neddy prompted him. "Just that what?"
"Just that I never had a wish come true" and suddenly the old man stopped crying. It was out. The horrible secret was out. How, when he was very small he has seen a train set in a shop window whilst walking by with his mum. Every day for weeks they passed the shop and he would look in at the train set, an electric one, until he knew it off by heart. "Now don't start crying again," said the Manager, not unsympathetically but with a rallying note in her voice which Neddy admired so much, "remember where we are and what we have to do. Do I take it, the train set was never to be yours?"
"Someone bought it, Just a few days before I went to the shop with my mother to buy it. It was to be my Christmas present that year." Calmer now, the Old Administrator blew his nose into the neckerchief and seemed able to carry out his duties.
Chapter Four, Page 19, Joe's Christmas - Smashwords.com
There we are then - and tomorrow we will find out more from that very special Returns Department where all our wishes go to...Big Love Wonka XXXXX
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