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Old 12-04-2016, 05:50 AM
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CookyIN
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Originally Posted by Evie View Post
OK, this will date me, but here goes. I grew up in a small mill town with just working class folk. At Christmas we all gathered in the community gym and sang carols with a piano accompanist, the adults told stories, and then Santa would show up with his bag of goodies. Each child got a plain brown paper bag which contained an apple, an orange, some unshelled nuts, hard Christmas candy and a candy cane. It wasn't much, but when you really don't have a lot to begin with, it was the best!
Evie, what special memories! My dear dad was a "Depression baby" and every Christmas after my brother and I had opened our gifts, he'd tell us "When I was a kid we were so poor that one Christmas all I got was a dime and an orange." Happy memories.
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