Pavarotti.
So, do you bring your friends up here?
- I haven't got many friends.
- Sorry.
I'm like the birds I care for.
People pass me in the street.
They see me but they try to ignore me.
They prefer I wasn't part of their city.
Yeah. It's sort of like that with my family.
I'm kind of the pigeon of the house
just because I'm the youngest.
Everyone fights for position.
Everybody wants to be seen and heard.
I guess so.
I'm seen and heard pretty much.
But then I get sent to my room a lot, too.
I wasn't always like this, you know.
What were you like before?
I had a job. I had a home. I had a family.
- Did you have any kids?
- No. Oh, I wanted them.
But the man I loved
fell out of love with me.
That broke my heart.
And whenever the chance to be loved
came along again, I ran away from it.
I stopped trusting people.
No offense, but that seems like
sort of a dumb thing to do.
I was afraid of getting
my heart broken again.
You see, sometimes
you can trust a person,
and then, when things are down,
they forget about you.
Maybe they're just too busy.
Maybe they don't forget about you,
but they forget to remember you.
I don't think people mean to forget.
I think it just happens.
My grandfather says if my head wasn't
screwed on, I'd leave it on the school bus.
I'm just afraid if I do trust someone,
I'll get my heart broken again.
I understand that.
I used to have this
really nice pair of rollerblades.
I was afraid if I wore them, I'd wreck them.
So I kept them in a box.
- Do you know what happened?
- No.
I outgrew them.
I never wore them once outside.
I just wore them in my room
a couple times.
A person's heart and a person's feelings
are very different than skates.
Well, they're kind of the same thing.
If you aren't going to use your heart, then
what's the difference if it gets broken?
If you just keep it to yourself,
maybe it'll be like my rollerblades.
When you do decide to try it,
it won't be any good.
You should take a chance.
Got nothing to lose.
A bit of truth in there somewhere.
I think so. Your heart might
still be broken, but it isn't gone.
If it was gone, you wouldn't be this nice.
Thank you.
Do you know that it's been a couple
of years since I've talked to anybody?
That's okay. You're really good at it.
You're not boring.
You don't mumble or spit when you talk.
You should do it more often.
I think you just have to wear an outfit
that doesn't have pigeon poop on it.
I have been working very hard
at keeping people away, haven't I?
I always think I'll have
a lot of fun if I'm alone,
but when I'm alone,
it isn't that much fun at all.
I don't care how much
people bug me sometimes,
I'd rather be with somebody
than by myself.
So what are you doing running around the
streets on Christmas Eve on your own?
Did you get into trouble?
- Yeah.
- You've done something wrong?
A lot of things.
Did you know that a good deed
erases a bad deed?
It's getting pretty late.
I don't know if I'll have enough time
to do all the good deeds I need
to erase all the bad ones I did.
Well, it's Christmas Eve.
Good deeds count for extra tonight.
- They do?
- Of course they do.
So what you must do now is you must
think of the most important thing
that you can do for others
and go and do it.
Just follow the star in your own heart.
Okay.
It's getting pretty late. I'd better get going.
If I don't see you again,
I hope everything turns out okay.
Thank you.
- Say goodbye to your birds for me.
- I will.
- Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas.
If you need somebody to trust,
it can be me.
I won't forget to remember you.
Don't make promises you can't keep.
All the money in the cash registers,
Mr. Duncan is going to donate
to the Children's Hospital.
At midnight tonight,
we're hitting Duncan's Toy Chest.
You can mess with a lot of things, but
you can't mess with kids on Christmas.
We'd like to offer you
a complimentary suite while you're here.
It's