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Another Christmas Eve, as I look out my bedroom window, and wonder where the kids could be, it seems so long ago," he sings in the opening verse of the melancholic, three-hanky folk song.Â
This song has special resonance for McGee this year. For the first time in his life, he won't get to see his mother, Martha, on Christmas. She became a resident at Priddy Manor in King a few weeks before the spread of COVID-19 forced assisted living homes to restrict visitors.Â
"Typically, we'd have a big family gathering," said McGee, who is the executive director of the Stokes County Arts Council. "We'd be there Christmas morning. This is different, and I'm definitely relating to this now. I didn't know it at the time, but she's the someone I was singing about when I wrote this. Years later, she's the subject of my song."