Yes Norma you'll have to do it next year they do it ever year.
Donata
-----Original Message-----
From: norma runyon <nrunyon(a)bps.cc>
To: INDELAWA-L(a)rootsweb.com <INDELAWA-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 12:24 PM
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Thanks for enjoying my memory with me.It would probably be too late to
post
to
the Muncie paper,but thanks for the idea,maybe next year.
Norma
Donata Boyle wrote:
> Norma,
> You should send this into the Muncie Star Press, They are taking
Christmas
> stories now for the newspaper. (You I think can submit it via
email).
This
> is priceless.
> Donata
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicorn <unicorn(a)ezworks.net>
> To: INDELAWA-L(a)rootsweb.com <INDELAWA-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Date: Sunday, December 17, 2000 8:08 PM
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>
> >Norma,
> >What a breathtaking story. You should write this up for a magazine!!
> >Shirley
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: norma runyon
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> > Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 5:17 PM
> > Subject: [INDELAWA-L] (no subject)
> >
> >
> > I was born just after the depression and before WW 2.Where ever two to
> > three adults gathered,the talk was always about the storm clouds over
> > Europe.I thought at that age, it was always raining there.At meal time
> > my grandmum would say eat everything on your plate,think about those
> > poor starving children in Armenia.What a terrible place Europe must
> > be,raining and starving children.I had no idea we didn`t have any
> > money,I was happy and well taken care of.Grandmum use to read stories
to
> > me,such as the little girl who sold matchsticks and the
girl who knew
> > she would have no presents to open at Christmas.So she gathered
> > sticks,rocks and anything she could wrap,that way she would have
> > something to unwrap Christmas morning.Grandmum said we didn`t have any
> > money for presents this year either.So I decided together things and
> > wrap them up,she gave me empty boxes, she helped me wrap them and she
> > said now if Santa doesn`t come, you will have them to unwrap. I must
> > admit I was very disappointed thinking about no Christmas.None the
less
> > I went to bed and fell asleep,the next morning my dad came
in to wake
me
> > up and carried me to the front room where the tree was,my
heart
dropped,
> > the same presents we had wrapped the night before were
under the
> > tree.Well aren`t you going to see what is under the tree?Asked my
uncle
> > Kirb Mccormick and handed me a package,as I unwrapped it
there was a
> > real present in it.Each box I opened was a surprise,the huge box I had
> > wrapped the night before was a Madame Alexander doll. they had spent
the
> > night re-wrapping those presents.My family is gone now,but
the
wonderful
> > memories linger on.
> > Norma Losh-Runyon
> >
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