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Rebecca Holden's avatar

Oh, this is wonderful - I love your brilliantly creative descriptive language! Awesome post.

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Mel's avatar

I can see the story!

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Susannah Rigg's avatar

Wow, what a story! The details were divine- "The apartment smelled like cigarettes and bacon grease. We bought our Christmas tree from a beachfront lot, which seemed weird but cool." So much delicious detail in so few words.

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Jolene Handy's avatar

Love cowboy Santa

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Julie B. Hughes's avatar

Thank you, Amie. I just put an ornament from 1979 on the tree! The year I was born.

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Ruth Stroud's avatar

Your gift for summoning the past in so few words is a continuing delight, Amie!

No Santa ornaments at our house, just a few ancient menorahs and dreidels.

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Vicki Smith's avatar

We have ornaments that date back to my childhood, but none with quite that back story. I like your cowboy Santa!

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