CHRISTMAS GIFT
It was Christmas Eve, 1935. The Depression was at its height. A young widow and her six year old son prepared to try to celebrate Christmas. This year there would be no Christmas candy, or buying of gifts. Even supper tonight, which usually was a lavish feast, would be very plain. And the gifts, well, they were very simple too. The mother had knit a pair of mittens for her son and herself. They weren’t knitted as well as she would have liked them to be, but they would have to do. Then just as she was going to have her little boy sit down for supper, he raced to the bedroom and came back proudly holding out a gift to his mother. The small gift was wrapped in an old newspaper, and done as well as any six year old could hope to do. “Open it, Mommy, open it!” he urged his mother. His eyes were dancing and sparkling with excitement.…
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