Twenty-Five Days of Heartwarming Memories #13

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Going to the Christmas tree lot with my father is one of my favorite memories...we always searched for the perfect tree - and of course, my brother and I rarely agreed on which one that was! My father worked (in the 60's) at a large open air mall - and they were the first to have the tiny Christmas lights that we're used to now. (Somehow we managed to have several strings of those lights at our house too.) One year after we got home with the "perfect" tree and put it in the stand it was discovered that a major branch of the tree was broken, not quite through, but enough to sag and ruin the symetry of the tree' silhouette. Necessity being the mother of invention - we found green thread and "sewed" that branch right back up. It was one of the most beautiful trees we ever had and if that branch was the first to dry out and turn a little brown - didn't matter to us! Phyllis Coppolino from Atlanta, GA.

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