>From: Jessica
>Okay, Marcus will join us, and George’s parents finally agreed. That means the concert is on. Mr. Frances wants us each to email him a list of our 3 favorite Christmas songs by December 1st. He’ll call us on December 4th to arrange rehearsals. I can’t believe we’re going to do this. This is sooooooo cool.

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>From: George
>Calm down Jessica. That was the easy part. Now we need to get up there and show all those professionals that we belong there. That’s going to be the hard part. The second Sammie walks out there in her cute dress and sticker covered, purple violin they are all going to be certain that we don’t belong there. That means we all need to practice a lot and be perfect out there.

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>From: Sammie’s Mom
>Should I have Sammie take the stickers off her violin for the performance.

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>From: Jessica
>NO!!!!

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>From: George
>NO

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>From: Marcus
>Definitely NOT. Those stickers are part of the special charm of Sammie.

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>From: Holly
>Cindy loved those stickers. She was actually envious that there was no real way to put stickers on a flute. Let Sammie have the stickers on her violin.

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>From: George
>Holly, is Cindy up to this?

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>From: Holly
>Cindy can block out everything in her life when playing and just melt into the music. I think the concert will be good for her. We haven’t decided when to tell her about this concert though. When the London Christmas Concert fell through because we couldn’t get passports in time, it hit her hard. Until we absolutely know this one is going to happen, we’re not telling her about it. I’ll get the song list from her without her knowing why and send it off to that Mr. Frances guy. We’ve decided not to tell Cindy until he calls us to confirm this is all going to happen.

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>From: Sammie’s Mom
>Sammie doesn’t know about this either. I’m not sure I’m going to tell her until just before the first rehearsal. Like Cindy, the concert won’t be a problem for Sammie. The challenge will be keeping her calm and focused on things like school up until the concert.