Finding Father Christmas

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It's a week before Christmas. Miranda Chester, a stager with an interior design firm in Seattle, has avoided any personal sense of the season ever since her mother Eve Chester, a stage actress and the only parent she ever knew in Eve never having divulged the identity of Miranda's father, died while performing on stage exactly twenty years ago when Miranda was only nine. Miranda's non-Christmas this year changes when she comes into possession of a long forgotten suitcase that belonged to her mother. Three items hidden in the suitcase end up being what Miranda believes are clues to her father's identity: a bracelet with an angel charm which she does recognize as one of her mother's prized possessions; a theater playbill from San Francisco of her mother performing in The Tempest in the role of Miranda, that playbill dated nine months before this Miranda's birth; and a photograph of a man dressed as Santa Claus with a young boy on his lap, neither who she recognizes. These items make ...