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Transcript: She remembered with a sigh all of the invitations from her neighbors she had ignored. And she decided it was time to start filling her days with conversation instead of just silence. Around the same time that her silent nights became commonplace, Piper started having trouble sleeping. Often, she woke up while the land was still dark, so she would take short walks through the woods to clear her head. Piper loved her house on a hill. Never was there a knock on the door, never the ring of the doorbell or telephone to disturb her peace. In fact, her peace would have been perfect if not for the noisy owl perched outside her bedroom window at night. Sometimes the owl hissed, sometimes it screeched, but it was the lonely "hoo, hoo" that disturbed Piper most. It was during one of these strolls that she noticed a familiar sound—the "hoo, hoo" of her former nemesis. But there was something different about it…the lonely sound had somehow become happier. Piper looked up and saw, not just one owl, but an entire group of them. She couldn’t help but smile. So many nights she cursed the noises soaring through the sky, until one heavenly evening when she heard nothing but the sweet sound of silence. She thought it a fluke at first, but that joyously quiet night was followed by another, and another, and another. When she returned home, she noticed how far away her house seemed from the others on her hill. Silent Nights