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Anne's avatar

The ornament is beautiful! You have taken good care of it all these years. ❤️ wonderful story too!! Merry! Merry to all!

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Lori Faust's avatar

Merry Christmas! Thank you for this beautiful eloquent piece. The wistful mix of joy and hope and melancholy this season always holds for me - you nailed it.

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Juanita Zorich's avatar

Merry Christmas Karen!❤️🎄💚

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Mary Morgan's avatar

Merry Christmas. Wrote a long thought, now erased it. Lovely memories you share. Thanks.

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Suzette Ciancio's avatar

Merry Christmas! 🎶🎄🎶

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Diane Esper's avatar

Happy Heavenly Birthday to your mom!! My mom, too, would be 101, on December 27th. I think of her every day and so wish I could just pick up the phone for a chat. I have many of her ornaments on my tree, a peaceful reminder of years gone by. Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!❤️🎄

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Wendy Deuring's avatar

A lovely moving essay. Thank you oh so much 🙏❤️

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Marlee Terry's avatar

Love this song and your piece on it, Karen. My mother would be 103 on December 19th. She and I would dress up in snowmobile outfits and walk out on frozen Lake James near Houghton Lake, Michigan. We would sing every Christmas carol we could think of, and then start over if we weren't too cold. My dad and two brothers never joined us although they were invited.

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Karen Sandstrom's avatar

This is just so great, Marlee -- thank you for painting the picture so vividly. And happy birthday to your mom.

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