It’s years after Gwendy had the button box and returned it to the man in the bowler hat. Gwendy’s had some spectacular success as a novelist, then she decided to run for Congress – and she won. She’s also gotten married to a reporter who is away on assignment a lot. Then, then man in the bowler hat returns, kind of. He’s placed the button box in her file cabinet in her office in Washington D.C. How he got it past security is another question. It’s Christmas and she’s gone back to her hometown in Maine to spend time with her mother, who has cancer, and her father. At dinner, her father gives her a present of the old white feather she used to call her magic feather. She makes a wish that her mother would get better. She also gives her mother a couple of the chocolates from the button box. Her husband returns home and Gwendy feels all is well. The next day, her mother’s doctor calls to inform everyone that the cancer seems to have completely gone. Was it the feather, or the chocolates from the button box?
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