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
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From: unicorn <unicorn(a)ezworks.net>
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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
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> 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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