The Christmas Shoes

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The Christmas Shoes
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The Christmas Shoes is a Christmas-themed story, song, book, film, and play.

Originally an Internet-forwarded legend, it was forwarded to a member of the Christian vocal group NewSong in 1996. They worked on the song for four years and eventually released it as a bonus track in 2000. In Tom Reynolds' book I Hate Myself and Want to Die (2006), he names "The Christmas Shoes" as the most depressing song in modern recorded music history

[edit] Movie Plot

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A young boy named Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for his mother, who is dying because of heart failure, while a lawyer tries to deal with his divorce. Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir and declines a job in Robert's firm. When Robert's mother passes away, he begins to reconsider things and his and Nathan's paths cross on Christmas Eve as Nathan tries to raise the money for the shoes and Robert tries to get a present for his daughter.